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Recent

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Recent Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Recent?

[adj] near to or not long before the present; "recent times"; "of recent origin"
[adj] being new in a time not long past; "recent graduates"; "a recent addition to the house"; "recent buds on the apple trees"
[adj] 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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Recent: late(a) | modern | new | past

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Recent In Webster's Dictionary

\Re"cent\, 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. 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. (Geol.) Of or pertaining to the present or existing epoch; as, recent shells.

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