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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [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"
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