recent : [r'isənt]
Recent \
Re "
cent \ (
r [=
e ]"
sent ),
a . [
L .
recens , -
entis :
cf .
F .
r ['
e ]
cent .]
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 .
[
1913 Webster ]
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 .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 . (
Geol .)
Of or pertaining to the present or existing epoch ;
as ,
recent shells .
[
1913 Webster ]
recent adj 1 :
new ; "
recent graduates "; "
a recent addition to the house "; "
recent buds on the apple trees "
2 :
of the immediate past or just previous to the present time ;
"
a late development "; "
their late quarrel "; "
his recent trip to Africa "; "
in recent months "; "
a recent issue of the journal " [
synonym : {
late (
a )}, {
recent }]
n 1 :
approximately the last 10 ,
000 years [
synonym : {
Holocene },
{
Holocene epoch }, {
Recent }, {
Recent epoch }]
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "
recent ":
ancient ,
brand -
new ,
current ,
early ,
erstwhile ,
fore ,
former ,
fresh ,
immemorial ,
just out ,
late ,
later ,
latest ,
latter ,
modern ,
modernistic ,
neoteric ,
new ,
new -
fashioned ,
newfangled ,
newly come ,
novel ,
of yesterday ,
old ,
olden ,
once ,
onetime ,
past ,
prehistoric ,
previous ,
primeval ,
primitive ,
prior ,
quondam ,
sometime ,
then
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