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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.


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              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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  recent
       adj 1: being new in a time not long past; "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" [syn: {late(a)}]
       3: near to or not long before the present; "recent times"; "of
          recent origin"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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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