Definition of Recent

1. Adjective. New. "Recent buds on the apple trees"

Similar to: New
Derivative terms: Recency, Recentness

2. Noun. Approximately the last 10,000 years.
Exact synonyms: Holocene, Holocene Epoch, Recent Epoch
Group relationships: Age Of Man, Quaternary, Quaternary Period
Generic synonyms: Epoch

3. Adjective. Of the immediate past or just previous to the present time. "A recent issue of the journal"
Exact synonyms: Late
Similar to: Past
Derivative terms: Lateness, Recency, Recentness

Definition of Recent

1. a. Of late origin, existence, or occurrence; lately come; not of remote date, antiquated style, or the like; not already known, familiar, worn out, trite, etc.; fresh; novel; new; modern; as, recent news.

Definition of Recent

1. Adjective. Having happened a short while ago. ¹

2. Adjective. Up-to-date; not old-fashioned or dated. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Recent

1. of or pertaining to a time not long past [adj -CENTER, -CENTEST] : RECENTLY [adv]

Medical Definition of Recent

1. 1. Of late origin, existence, or occurrence; lately come; not of remote date, antiquated style, or the like; not already known, familiar, worn out, trite, etc.; fresh; novel; new; modern; as, recent news. "The ancients were of opinion, that a considerable portion of that country [Egypt] was recent, and formed out of the mud discharged into the neighboring sea by the Nile." (Woodward) 2. Of or pertaining to the present or existing epoch; as, recent shells. Origin: L. Recens, -entis: cf. F. Recent. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recent

recency
recense
recensed
recenses
recensing
recension
recensionist
recensionists
recensions
recensor
recensored
recensoring
recensors
recensorship
recensus
recent (current term)
recent memory
recenter
recentered
recentering
recenters
recentest
recently
recentness
recentnesses
recentralize
recentralized
recentralizes
recentralizing
recentre

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