'Recent' definitions:
Definition of 'recent'
(from WordNet)
adjective
New; "recent graduates"; "a recent addition to the house"; "recent buds on the apple trees"
adjective
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), recent]
noun
Definition of 'Recent'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'recent'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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