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Definition of 'Recent' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) recent
of late occurrence, appearance, or origin; lately happening, done, made, etc.:
recent events.

2.  recent
of or belonging to a time not long past.

3.  recent
(cap.) Geol. noting or pertaining to the present epoch, originating at the end of the glacial period, about 10,000 years ago, and forming the latter part of the Quaternary Period; Holocene.

Etymology:  (1525–35; < L recent- (s. of recēns) fresh, new)

Definition of 'Recent' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (adj) Holocene, Holocene epoch, Recent, Recent epoch
approximately the last 10,000 years

2. (adj) recent
new
"recent graduates"; "a recent addition to the house"; "recent buds on the apple trees"

3. (adj) late(a), recent
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"


Definition of 'Recent' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (adjective) recent
happening not long ago
the change in her attitude in recent days/weeks/months; a recent article in the paper


Definition of 'Recent' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) Recent
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

2. (adj) Recent
of or pertaining to the present or existing epoch; as, recent shells


Translation of 'Recent' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: happening, done etc not long ago
Things have changed in recent weeks; recent events.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: onlangs Arabic flag Arabic: حَديث، قَريب العَهْد Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: скорошен
Brazilian flag Brazilian: recente Czech flag Czech: nedávný German flag German: vor kurzem
Danish flag Danish: sidste; seneste Greek flag Greek: πρόσφατος Spanish flag Spanish: reciente
Estonian flag Estonian: hiljutine Farsi flag Farsi: تازه؛ جدید Finnish flag Finnish: äskettäinen
French flag French: récent Hebrew flag Hebrew: שֶׁלא מִזמָן Hindi flag Hindi: हाल का
Croatian flag Croatian: posljednji Hungarian flag Hungarian: újabb keletű Indonesian flag Indonesian: mutakhir
Icelandic flag Icelandic: nÿlegur Italian flag Italian: recente Japanese flag Japanese: 最近の
Korean flag Korean: 최근의 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: pastaras, nesenas Latvian flag Latvian: nesens; pēdējais
Malay flag Malay: baru-baru ini Dutch flag Dutch: laatst Norwegian flag Norwegian: som nylig har funnet sted
Polish flag Polish: ostatni Persian flag Persian: تازه؛ جدید Pashto flag Pashto: نوى، تازه، راوروسته، نژدى
Portuguese flag Portuguese: recente Romanian flag Romanian: recent Russian flag Russian: недавний; последний
Slovak flag Slovak: nedávny, posledný Slovenian flag Slovenian: nedaven Serbian flag Serbian: skorašnji
Swedish flag Swedish: senaste, nyligen skedd Thai flag Thai: เร็ว ๆ นี้ Turkish flag Turkish: yeni (olmuş), geçen
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 最近的 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: недавній, останній Urdu flag Urdu: حالیہ
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: gần đây Chinese flag Chinese: 最近的

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