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# contemporaneous

«contemporaneous» in Mova's school dictionary: **Existing or happening at the same time as something else:…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (contemporaneous)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) Existing or happening at the same time as something else: «contemporaneous accounts of the battle». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contemporaneous/#m1)

2) Contemporaneous notes or records: written down at the time something happened, not later. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contemporaneous/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons, «contemporaneous sources» (also called primary sources or contemporary sources) are records written at the time of an event, such as diaries, letters and newspapers; historians trust them more about details than later retellings. In law, police make contemporaneous notes. Phrases: «contemporaneous with», «contemporaneous accounts», «contemporaneous records».

### examples

- Samuel Pepys wrote a contemporaneous account of the Great Fire of London. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contemporaneous/#x1)
- The dinosaurs were not contemporaneous with humans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contemporaneous/#x2)
- Historians compared two contemporaneous reports of the battle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contemporaneous/#x3)
- The police officer made contemporaneous notes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contemporaneous/#x4)
- The building of the two castles was roughly contemporaneous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contemporaneous/#x5)
- Diaries are useful because they are contemporaneous with the events. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contemporaneous/#x6)

### note

Very formal. Said «kon-tem-puh-RAY-nee-us». It is close to «contemporary», but «contemporary» can also mean «modern, of today» (contemporary art), while «contemporaneous» only means «of the same time as something else». A common myth in cartoons is that dinosaurs and cave people lived together; they were not contemporaneous: the last big dinosaurs died about 66 million years before humans.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «contemporaneous» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contemporaneous/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.