CONTEMPORARY WORLD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does contemporary world mean? 

• CONTEMPORARY WORLD (noun)
  The noun CONTEMPORARY WORLD has 1 sense:

1. the circumstances and ideas of the present age

  Familiarity information: CONTEMPORARY WORLD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONTEMPORARY WORLD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The circumstances and ideas of the present age

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

contemporary world; modern times; modern world; present times

Context example:

in modern times like these

Hypernyms ("contemporary world" is a kind of...):

times (a more or less definite period of time now or previously present)