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English
Etymology
Clipping of contemporary
Adjective
contempo (comparative more contempo, superlative most contempo)
- (informal) contemporary; modern
1969, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Internal Security, Investigation of Students for a Democratic Society, page 1141:You get “sex education" now in both high school and college classes: everyone determined not to be embarassed, to be very up to date, very contempo.
2004, Ethan Mordden, One More Kiss: The Broadway Musical in The 1970s, page 23:It's all very contempo—as one might expect of the musical version of a film released just four years before.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /konˈtɛm.po/
- Rhymes: -ɛmpo
- Hyphenation: con‧tèm‧po
Noun
contempo m (invariable)
- meantime, meanwhile