Dictionary entry

Contemporary

Pronunciation: /kənˈtɛmp(ə)r(ər)i/

Pronunciation

/kənˈtɛmp(ə)r(ər)i/

Myanmar Meaning

(adj) (နှင့်)ခေတ်ပြိုင်။ (နှင့်)တစ်ခေတ်တည်း။ မျက်မှောက်ခေတ်။ ခေတ်ပေါ်။ (n) တစ်ခေတ်တည်း(ကြီးပြင်းနေထိုင်ခဲ့သူ)။ ခေတ်ပြိုင်(ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်)။

Definition

contemporary /kǝn'temprǝri; US -pǝreri/ adj ၁။ ~ (with sb/sth) (ႏွင့္)ေခတ္ၿပိဳင္။ (ႏွင့္)တစ္ေခတ္တည္း။ 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။ မ်က္ေမွာက္ေခတ္။ ေခတ္ေပၚ။ contemporary events/fashions/dance/theatre ❍ furniture in a contemporary style. ❍ new n တစ္ေခတ္တည္း(ႀကီးျပင္းေနထိုင္ခဲ့သူ)။ ေခတ္ၿပိဳင္(ပုဂၢိဳလ္)။ She and I were contemporaries at college.

Examples

  1. Contemporary art/music/literature/dance
  2. Contemporary urban society
  3. Contemporary sources offer a very different interpretation.
  4. [contemporary with] : His work is contemporary with that of Thackeray.