English-French translations for contemporary

• contemporain
  Les jeux d'argent constituent une forme contemporaine de dépendance. Gambling is a contemporary form of addiction.
  La migration est bien un phénomène du monde contemporain. Migration is a phenomenon of the contemporary world.
  1956 est une date charnière de l'histoire contemporaine de l'Europe. 1956 was a turning point in the contemporary history of Europe.
• moderne
  Grâce à cette résolution, nous avons enfin les moyens de mettre un terme à cette forme moderne d'esclavage. This resolution allows us to put a stop to the contemporary slave trade.
  Le rapport est très contemporain ou moderne; il parle même d'une troisième génération des droits de l'homme et autres. The report is quite contemporary, or modern; it even speaks of a third generation of human rights and the like.

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