1. contemporary - Noun
2. contemporary - Adjective
3. contemporary - Adjective Satellite
Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.
Of the same age; coeval.
One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act. Carroll Quigley
The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting. Edward Hopper
I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven. Jascha Heifetz
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it. Gertrude Stein
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity. Eugenio Montale
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. W. H. Auden