Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To regard or place in the same time period; synchronize.
- intransitive verb To make modern or contemporary, as in style or decor.
- intransitive verb To be contemporary.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make contemporary; place in, or contemplate as belonging to, the same age or time.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb to happen at the same time.
- transitive verb to arrange or represent events so that they co-occur.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To bring up to date; often specifically to set a historical narrative in a modern context
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb arrange or represent events so that they co-occur
- verb happen at the same time
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Even though Ferrera plans to "contemporize" the tale, with Forest on board my money's still on the latter project to be the much more interesting.
Who should play Frank Sinatra? Reel Fanatic 2009
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Even though Ferrera plans to "contemporize" the tale, with Forest on board my money's still on the latter project to be the much more interesting.
Archive 2009-05-01 Reel Fanatic 2009
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Now is the time to revisit and "contemporize" the Condominium Act. After all, if the social housing sector has been afforded that latitude, why not the condominium sector?
Toronto Sun 2010
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Now is the time to revisit and "contemporize" the Condominium Act. After all, if the social housing sector has been afforded that latitude, why not the condominium sector?
Toronto Sun 2010
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I was just happy to be able to put my own stamp on it and contemporize it a little bit, but really pay a lot of homage to the original intentions of the songwriters there.
Mike Ragogna: Review: My Morning Jacket "Unstaged," Plus Chatting with Erykah Badu and James Tormé Mike Ragogna 2011
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The A-Team has a huge following and these comics, much like the upcoming film, contemporize this enormously popular action-adventure franchise and deliver fresh, compelling stories and art to the fans, said Virginia King, Vice President U.S.
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Hancock had the visuals and naturalism that could nicely contemporize Ghostbusters, and the only thing that would hold this baby back is the script (Hancock's biggest problem).
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I was just happy to be able to put my own stamp on it and contemporize it a little bit, but really pay a lot of homage to the original intentions of the songwriters there.
Mike Ragogna: Review: My Morning Jacket "Unstaged," Plus Chatting with Erykah Badu and James Tormé Mike Ragogna 2011
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"What we did was contemporize it," Ms. Gibson-Ullman says of the changes.
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Kevin's debut is part of Archie Comics 'larger efforts to contemporize the characters' world.
Kevin Keller debuts as first openly gay character in Archie's Veronica Comics 2010
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