Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

contemporaneously

/kənˌtɛmpəˈɹeɪni.əsli/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.19 in modern English

Syllables: con-tem-po-ra-ne-ous-ly
IPA: /kənˌtɛmpəˈɹeɪni.əsli/

26

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

7

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a contemporaneous way: in the same period of time.

Example Sentences

"And with Sellars’ shift to the centerground of philosophical interest, we have, all of a sudden, two such books appearing almost contemporaneously."
"CNN and more than a dozen media outlets and groups asked US District Judge Tanya Chutkan for permission to “record and telecast” the March 2024 trial or for the court to “contemporaneously publish on YouTube its internally administered audiovisual livestreams and recordings of the proceedings.”"
"Lawmakers in Congress were clearly aware of that when they enacted IEEPA with that same language. And that, the Department of Justice has argued, “strongly indicates that both Congress and the public contemporaneously understood that language to encompass tariffs.”"

Etymology

From contemporaneous + -ly, from Latin contemporāneus, from co- (“together”) + tempus (“time”).

Word Breakdown

Suffix: contemporaneous

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /kənˌtɛmpəˈɹeɪni.əsli/
British English: /kənˌtɛmpəˈɹeɪni.əsli/

Synonyms

cotemporaneously contemporarily cotemporally coevally

Rhymes With

simultaneously spontaneously extraneously

Questions

How do you pronounce contemporaneously?: The recorded pronunciation is /kənˌtɛmpəˈɹeɪni.əsli/.
What does contemporaneously mean?: In a contemporaneous way: in the same period of time.
Where does contemporaneously come from?: From contemporaneous + -ly, from Latin contemporāneus, from co- (“together”) + tempus (“time”).

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