contempo

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English

Etymology

Clipping of contemporary

Adjective

contempo (comparative more contempo, superlative most contempo)

  1. (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)

  1. meantime, meanwhile