different between contemporary vs contemporize

English

Etymology

Recorded since 1631, from Medieval Latin contemporarius, from Latin con- (“with, together”) + temporarius (“of time”), from tempus (“time”)

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /k?n?t?m.p?????.i/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?n?t?m.p(?).???.i/, (nonstandard) /k?n?t?m.p(?).?i/

Adjective

contemporary (comparative more contemporary, superlative most contemporary)

1. From the same time period, coexistent in time; contemporaneous.
   • a. 1667, Abraham Cowley, Claudian's Old Man of Verona

     A neighb'ring Wood born with himself he sees, / And loves his old contemporary trees.

   • 1721, John Strype, Ecclesiastical Memorials

     This king was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe.

3. Modern, of the present age (shorthand for ‘contemporary with the present’).

Synonyms

• (from the same time period): contemporaneous; see also Thesaurus:contemporary
• (modern): current; see also Thesaurus:present

Antonyms

• (from the same time period): anachronistic: in the wrong time period
• (modern): archaic, coming

Derived terms

• contemporarily
• penecontemporary

Translations

Noun

contemporary (plural contemporaries)

1. Someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another.
2. Something existing at the same time.
   1. (dated) A rival newspaper or magazine.
      • 1900, The Speaker, the Liberal Review (volume 2, page 621)

        Annexation therefore was inevitable; but (as I have said above) it was not necessarily of prime importance in our national policy, and there has been no need to exaggerate—as I fear many of our contemporaries have exaggerated— […]

Translations

Further reading

• contemporary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• contemporary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• contemporary at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Alternative forms

• contemporise

Etymology

contemporary +? -ize

Verb

contemporize (third-person singular simple present contemporizes, present participle contemporizing, simple past and past participle contemporized)

1. To bring up to date; often specifically to set a historical narrative in a modern context
2. (marketing) To modify, repackage, or present a well-known or traditional product or brand in a way that appeals to contemporary consumers.

   • Oscar Mayer tapped him to try to find some way to reposition bologna and other troubled meats that were declining in popularity and sales...when Drane began working on the project, his orders were to “figure out how to contemporize what we’ve got.”

Synonyms

• update
• adapt

Derived terms

• contemporization

Related terms

• contemporary
• temporize