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adult contemporary en · NOUN

Meanings

(uncountable) A category of music including soft rock, ballads, easy listening, soul, and rhythm and blues.
- MTV is a singles medium, as is the hottest (warmest?) new radio strategy God help us, “adult contemporary”; even AOR devotes the contemporary portion of its programming to putative singles. 1990 January 2, Robert Christgau, “1980–1989: Rockism Faces the World”, in The Village Voice, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2022:

Deriveds

hot adult contemporary

Synonyms