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Friday, January 06, 2006

Todays word: contemporary

adjective 1 living, occurring, or originating at the same time. 2 belonging to or occurring in the present. 3 modern in style or design.

noun (pl. contemporaries) 1 a person or thing existing at the same time as another. 2 a person of roughly the same age as another.

— ORIGIN Latin contemporarius, from tempus ‘time’.

This time the source is: http://www.askoxford.com/?view=uk since the Cambridge site all of a sudden requires a password.

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