contemporary world

1. 1.

   the circumstances and ideas of the present age

   “in modern times like these”

   Synonymsmodern timespresent timesmodern world

   Broadertimes

Questions about contemporary world

What does contemporary world mean?

contemporary world means "the circumstances and ideas of the present age".

What is another word for contemporary world?

Close synonyms include modern times, present times, modern world. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is contemporary world a common word?

contemporary world is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.