English-Spanish translations for contemporary

• contemporáneo
  La inmigración es un fenómeno del mundo contemporáneo. Migration is a phenomenon of the contemporary world.
  Las migraciones son sin duda un fenómeno del mundo contemporáneo. Migrations are well and truly a phenomenon of the contemporary world.
  El informe del señor Hegyi arroja luz sobre un importante problema contemporáneo. Gyula Hegyi's report sheds light on an important contemporary problem.
• contemporario
• moderno
  El informe es bastante contemporáneo, o moderno; incluso habla de derechos humanos de tercera generación y cosas así. The report is quite contemporary, or modern; it even speaks of a third generation of human rights and the like.
  La igualdad entre los géneros es un tema sumamente moderno y contemporáneo que debe formar parte de la agenda política cotidiana de la UE. Gender equality is very much a modern, contemporary issue that needs to be part of the EU’s day-to-day political agenda.
  La pena capital es incompatible con un sistema de justicia penal moderno y, pese a lo que suele pensarse, no conduce en modo alguno a un descenso del número de delitos. Capital punishment is not compatible with a contemporary system of criminal justice, and contrary to current opinion it does not lead to a drop in crime at all.
• de hoy
  . – Señor Presidente, el debate de hoy se centra en una de las numerosas tragedias de nuestro mundo contemporáneo. . Mr President, today’s debate highlights one of the many tragedies of our contemporary world.
  La libertad religiosa es el derecho humano que se infringe más a menudo con impunidad en el mundo de hoy. Religious freedom is the human right most commonly infringed with impunity in the contemporary world.
  No obstante, todo esto solamente es posible si algo comienza a cambiar en el fuero interno de los europeos de hoy en día. Of course, all of this is possible only on the assumption that a change will begin to take place in the soul of the contemporary European.

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