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English Dictionary: Recent	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
recent adj new; "recent graduates"; "a recent addition to the house"; "recent buds on the apple trees" 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" Synonym(s): late(a), recent n approximately the last 10,000 years [syn: Holocene, Holocene epoch, Recent, Recent epoch]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Recent \Re"cent\, a. [L. recens, -entis: cf. F. r[82]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.