Modern vs. Contemporary

Modernadjective

Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.

Modernadjective

(history) Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.

Modernnoun

Someone who lives in modern times.

Modernadjective

Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice.

Modernadjective

New and common; trite; commonplace.

Modernnoun

A person of modern times; - opposed to ancient.

Modernnoun

a contemporary person

Modernnoun

a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes

Modernadjective

belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages;

Modernadjective

relating to a recently developed fashion or style;

Modernadjective

characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture

Modernadjective

ahead of the times;

Modernadjective

used of a living language; being the current stage in its development;

Contemporaryadjective

From the same time period, coexistent in time.

Contemporaryadjective

Modern, of the present age.

Contemporarynoun

Someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another.

Contemporarynoun

Something existing at the same time.

Contemporarynoun

(dated) A rival newspaper or magazine.

Contemporaryadjective

Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.

Contemporaryadjective

Of the same age; coeval.

Contemporarynoun

One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.

Contemporarynoun

a person of nearly the same age as another.

Contemporarynoun

a person of nearly the same age as another

Contemporaryadjective

characteristic of the present;

Contemporaryadjective

belonging to the present time;

Contemporaryadjective

occurring in the same period of time;

Contemporaryadjective

living or occurring at the same time

Contemporaryadjective

dating from the same time

Contemporaryadjective

belonging to or occurring in the present

Contemporaryadjective

following modern ideas in style or design

Contemporarynoun

a person or thing living or existing at the same time as another

Contemporarynoun

a person of roughly the same age as another