contemporary
/kənˈtɛmp(ə)r(ər)i/
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American sound/kənˈtɛmp(ə)r(ər)i/
kənˈtɛmpərəri
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kən - ˈtɛmpərəri -> contemporary
Myanmar meaning
(adj) (နှင့်)ခေတ်ပြိုင်။ (နှင့်)တစ်ခေတ်တည်း။ မျက်မှောက်ခေတ်။ ခေတ်ပေါ်။ (n) တစ်ခေတ်တည်း(ကြီးပြင်းနေထိုင်ခဲ့သူ)။ ခေတ်ပြိုင်(ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်)။
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contemporary /kǝn'temprǝri; US -pǝreri/ adj
၁။ ~ (with sb/sth) (နှင့်)ခေတ်ပြိုင်။ (နှင့်)တစ်ခေတ်တည်း။
Many contemporary writers condemned the emperor's actions. ❍ a contemporary record of events (ie one made by sb living at that time) ❍ Dickens was contemporary with Thackeray.
၂။ မျက်မှောက်ခေတ်။ ခေတ်ပေါ်။
contemporary events/fashions/dance/theatre ❍ furniture in a contemporary style. ❍ new
n တစ်ခေတ်တည်း(ကြီးပြင်းနေထိုင်ခဲ့သူ)။ ခေတ်ပြိုင်(ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်)။
She and I were contemporaries at college.
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modern, current, up to date, fashionable, present-day, modern-day, existing, abreast, accompanying, associated, attendant, au courant, classmate, coequal, coetaneous, coeval, coexistent, coexisting, coincident, concomitant, concurrent, connected, contempo, contemporaneous, contemporaries, existent, extant, fellow student, hot off press, in fashion, in touch, in vogue, instant, just out, latest, leading-edge, linked, mod, new, newfangled, now, ongoing, peer, present, recent, red-hot, related, simultaneous, state-of-the-art, synchronal, synchronic, synchronous, today, topical, ultramodern, up, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute, voguish, with it, Ã la mode
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