| 单词 | contemporaries |
| 释义 | contemporaries (once / 799 pages) n In school, kids are called peers. It's easier to say than contemporaries, but they mean the same thing. Young, old, or in-between, if people are the same age and living in the same era, they're contemporaries. You might be wondering what the noun contemporaries has to do with the adjective contemporary, which describes things that happen at the same time or in the present. Both words share a common Latin origin — con, meaning "together with," and tempus, meaning "time." Amaze your friends at the art museum by saying, "In this contemporary gallery, the artists who created the paintings are all contemporaries." WORD FAMILYcontemporary: contemporaries, contemporarily, contemporise, contemporize+/contemporise: contemporised, contemporising/contemporize: contemporized USAGE EXAMPLESAmong his contemporaries, recognition of Lowell’s mental instability was inextricably bound up with awe of his talent. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) And like so many of his contemporaries, Leighton Green believed the Allied cause was a just one. BBC(Dec 25, 2016) With his contemporaries still in the work force, Mr. Villeta now pals around with men 30 years his senior. New York Times(Dec 23, 2016) n all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age Syn|Hypo|Hyper coevals, generation youth culture young adults (a generational unit) considered as a cultural class or subculture peer groupcontemporaries of the same status hip-hopan urban youth culture associated with rap music and the fashions of African-American residents of the inner city youth subculturea minority youth culture whose distinctiveness depended largely on the social class and ethnic background of its members; often characterized by its adoption of a particular music genre people (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively |
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