3 definitions found 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. [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] 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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