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2 definitions found 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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