Hyphenation of contemporary

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word contemporary? This word can be hyphenated and contains 4 syllables as shown below.

con-tem-po-rary

Definitions of contemporary:

1.
A person of nearly the same age as another
2.
Characteristic of the present
Contemporary trends in design The role of computers in modern-day medicine
3.
Belonging to the present time
Contemporary leaders
4.
Occurring in the same period of time
A rise in interest rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in inflation The composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart

Synonyms of contemporary:

adj modern-day, modern
adj present-day, current
adj contemporaneous, synchronous, synchronal, synchronic
noun coeval, peer, equal, match, compeer

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