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contemporaneous

Syllables: con·tem·por·a·ne·ous/kənˌtɛm.pəˈɹeɪ.ni.əs/US/kənˌtɛm.pəˈɹeɪ.ni.əs/

contemporaneous adjective: existing or created in the same period of time.

Adjective

contemporaneous (not comparable)

  1. Existing or created in the same period of time.
    • Look in other contemporaneous works to see whether that idea was common then.
    • Let AE and ae be two Lines indefinitely extended each way, along which two moving Things or Points may paſs from afar, and at the ſame time may reach the places A and a, B and b, C and c, D and d, &c. and let B be the Point, by its diſtance from which, the Motion of the moving thing or point in AE...1736, Isaac Newton, “Prob[lem] II. An Equation being Proposed, Including the Fluxions of Quantities, to Find the Relations of those Quantities to One Another.”, in John Colson, transl., The Method of...

contemporaneous meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Punjabi and Tagalog

contemporaneous in Tamil

அதே காலத்தில் இருந்த, உருவாக்கப்பட்ட, நிகழ்ந்த, ஒரே காலத்திய

contemporaneous in Bengali

সমসাময়িক

contemporaneous in Punjabi

contemporaneous; contemporary; coetaneous-ness
ہان hāṇ

contemporaneous in Tagalog

existing or created in the same period of time
alinsabay
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contemporaneous in Arabic
مُتَعَاصِر mutaʕāṣir, مُتَزَامِن mutazāmin, مُتَوَاقِت mutawāqit, مُعَاصِر muʕāṣir

Synonyms of contemporaneous

Origin of contemporaneous

From Latin contemporāneus (“contemporary”), from con- (“with”) + tempus (“time”) + -aneus (“of or pertaining to”) (compare Late Latin temporāneus (“opportune, timely”)).

Words formed from contemporaneous

Words that rhyme with contemporaneous

Questions about contemporaneous

What does contemporaneous mean?
Contemporaneous means existing or created in the same period of time.
What is contemporaneous in Tamil?
Contemporaneous in Tamil is அதே காலத்தில் இருந்த, உருவாக்கப்பட்ட, நிகழ்ந்த. See Contemporaneous meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is contemporaneous?
Contemporaneous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce contemporaneous?
Contemporaneous is pronounced /kənˌtɛm.pəˈɹeɪ.ni.əs/ (UK).

Words near contemporaneous in the dictionary

  1. contemporality
  2. contemporanea expositio
  3. contemporanean
  4. contemporaneans
  5. contemporaneity
  6. contemporaneous
  7. contemporaneously
  8. contemporaneousness
  9. contemporaries
  10. contemporarily
  11. contemporariness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: contemporaneous (page history and authors); contemporaneous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); contemporaneous (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ہان (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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