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Definition of Recent

1. Noun. Approximately the last 10,000 years.

2. Adjective. New. "Recent buds on the apple trees"

3. Adjective. Of the immediate past or just previous to the present time. "A recent issue of the journal"

Definition of Recent

1. a. 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.

Definition of Recent

1. Adjective. Having happened a short while ago. ¹

2. Adjective. Up-to-date; not old-fashioned or dated. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Recent

1. of or pertaining to a time not long past [adj -CENTER, -CENTEST] : RECENTLY [adv]

Medical Definition of Recent

1. 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. Of or pertaining to the present or existing epoch; as, recent shells. Origin: L. Recens, -entis: cf. F. Recent. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recent

recency recense recensed recenses recensing recension recensionist recensionists recensions recensor

recensored recensoring recensors recensorship recensus recent (current term) recent memory recenter recentered recentering

recenters recentest recently recentness recentnesses recentralize recentralized recentralizes recentralizing recentre

Literary usage of Recent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries by Charles Darwin (1890)
"CHAPTER XVI Coast-road to Coquimbo—Great loads carried by the miners—Coquimbo—Earthquake —Step-formed terraces—Absence of recent ..."

2. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"CHAPTER V BAHIA BLANCA Bahia Blanca — Geology — Numerous gigantic Quadrupeds—recent Extinction—Longevity of Species—Large Animals do not require a luxuriant ..."

3. Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries by Charles Darwin (1846)
"Coast-road to Coquimbo—Great Loads carried by the Miners— Coquimbo—Earthquake—Step-formed Terraces—Absence of recent Deposits—Contemporaneousness of the ..."

4. Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries by Charles Darwin (1889)
"... gravel, and sand thrown up by the sea during the slow elevation of the land, of which elevation we have evidence in upraised beds of recent shells, ..."

5. Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries by Charles Darwin (1873)
"CHAPTER V. Bahia Blanca—Geology—Numerous gigantic extinct Quadrupeds—recent Extinction—Longevity of Species—Large Animals do not require a luxu- riant ..."

6. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"CHAPTER V BAHIA BLANCA Bahia Blanca — Geology—'Numerous gigantic Quadrupeds—recent Extinction—Longevity of Species—Large Animals do not require a luxuriant ..."

7. Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington by Philosophical Society of Washington (1906)
"This report is not based upon a complete examination of the recent literature of geodesy. The writer has been too busy to devote much time to the special ..."

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