{
    "term": "contemporary",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "belonging to the same time",
            "sensetop": "contemporary with somebody/something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We have no contemporary account of the battle *(= written near the time that it happened)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was contemporary with the dramatist Congreve.",
                    "contextForm": "contemporary with somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The amphitheatre is roughly contemporary with the Colosseum in Rome."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She used only strictly contemporary documents to research the book."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a composer contemporary with Beethoven"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a period broadly contemporary with the Shang dynasty"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["History"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be"],
                "adverb": ["exactly", "nearly", "broadly"],
                "preposition": ["with"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "belonging to the present time",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**contemporary society/culture**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**contemporary art/music/dance**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "contemporary architecture/literature/painting/politics/history"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He is among the best-known **contemporary artists**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The film paints a depressing picture of life in contemporary Britain."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She is one of the great innovators of contemporary dance."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The prize is awarded for the best piece of contemporary fiction published in that year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This approach has contributed to growing inequality almost everywhere in the contemporary world."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "modern",
            "topics": ["Buildings"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be"],
                "adverb": ["decidedly", "thoroughly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "following modern ideas in style or design",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Try some contemporary colours on your kitchen walls."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kənˈtemprəri/",
                "audio": "xc/contemporary/xcontemporary__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kənˈtempəreri/",
                "audio": "xc/contemporary/xcontemporary__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 17th cent.: from medieval Latin contemporarius, from con- ‘together with’ + tempus, tempor- ‘time’ (on the pattern of Latin contemporaneus and late Latin contemporalis)."
}