English-Portuguese translations for contemporary

• contemporâneo
  A migração é um fenómeno do mundo contemporâneo.Migration is a phenomenon of the contemporary world.
  As migrações são, sem sombra de dúvida, um fenómeno do mundo contemporâneo. Migrations are well and truly a phenomenon of the contemporary world.
  O relatório do senhor deputado Gyula Hegyi lança luz sobre um importante problema contemporâneo. Gyula Hegyi's report sheds light on an important contemporary problem.
• moderno
  Na altura, para muitos de nós, o Senhor Deputado Cohn-Bendit era uma espécie de Robin Hood moderno. For many of us at the time, Mr Cohn-Bendit was a kind of contemporary Robin Hood figure.
  O relatório é muito actual, ou moderno; fala mesmo de uma terceira geração de direitos humanos e de coisas semelhantes. The report is quite contemporary, or modern; it even speaks of a third generation of human rights and the like.
  Precisamos de uma aprovação anual das contas, segundo padrões modernos, susceptível de identificar os erros e garantir o mais alto nível de conformidade. We need an annual contemporary signing-off which can identify errors and ensure compliance to the highest standard.

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