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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RE'CENT, a. [L. recens.]
1. New; being of late origin or existence.
The ancients believed some parts of Egypt to be recent, and formed by the mud discharged into the sea by the Nile.
2. Late; modern; as great and worthy men ancient or recent. [Modern is now used.]
3. Fresh; lately received; as recent news or intelligence.
4. Late; of late occurrence; as a recent event or transaction.
5. Fresh; not long dismissed, released or parted from; as Ulysses, recent from the storms.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: new; "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, recent] n
1: approximately the last 10,000 years [syn: Holocene, Holocene epoch, Recent, Recent epoch]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin recent-, recens; perhaps akin to Greek kainos new Date: 15th century 1. a. having lately come into existence ; new, fresh b. of or relating to a time not long past 2. capitalized Holocene • recentness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. 1 not long past; that happened, appeared, began to exist, or existed lately. 2 not long established; lately begun; modern. 3 (Recent) Geol. = HOLOCENE. --n. Geol. = HOLOCENE. Derivatives: recency n. recently adv. recentness n. Etymology: L recens recentis or F récent

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Recent Re"cent, 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. 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. (Geol.) Of or pertaining to the present or existing epoch; as, recent shells.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. A recent event or period of time happened only a short while ago. In the most recent attack one man was shot dead and two others were wounded... Sales have fallen by more than 75 percent in recent years. ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. New, novel. 2. Late, fresh, newly come. 3. Latter, modern.

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