English-Dutch translations for contemporary

• eigentijds
• hedendaags
  De ellende van de Birmese natie is daar een hedendaags voorbeeld van. The plight of the Burmese nation is a contemporary example of this.
  Voorzitter, hedendaags terrorisme wordt gedomineerd door islamitisch terrorisme. Mr President, contemporary terrorism is dominated by Islamic terrorism.
  Deze blog was een van de interessantste politieke en culturele ontwikkelingen in het hedendaags China. The blog was one of the most interesting political and cultural developments in contemporary China.
• contemporain
• gelijktijdig
• tijdgenoot
• tijdgenote

Definition of contemporary

• From the same time period, coexistent in time
• Modern, of the present age
• Someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another
• Something existing at the same time

Examples

• Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare
• The early mammals inherited the earth by surviving their saurian contemporaries

Related words

• contemporaneous
• contemporaneity
• contemporarily
• contemporary art
• contemporary R&B
• contemporary history
• contemporary witness
• contemporary testimony
• contemporary christian music