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re·cent  (rsnt)
adj.
1. Of, belonging to, or occurring at a time immediately before the present.
2. Modern; new.
3. Recent Geology Of, belonging to, or denoting the Holocene Epoch. See Table at geologic time.

[Middle English, new, fresh, from Latin recns, recent-; see ken- in Indo-European roots.]

recen·cy, recent·ness n.
recent·ly adv.

recent
Adjective
1. having happened lately
2. new [Latin recens fresh]
recently adv

Recent
Adjective
same as Holocene

Recent  (rsnt)
See Holocene.
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Noun1.Recent - approximately the last 10,000 years
Age of Man, Quaternary, Quaternary period - last 2 million years
Adj.1.recent - new; "recent graduates"; "a recent addition to the house"; "recent buds on the apple trees"
new - not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World"
2.recent - 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"
past - earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year"

recent
Translations

recent [ˈriːsnt] adjreciente;
in recent years → en los últimos años
recent [ˈriːsnt] adjrécent(e);
in recent years → au cours de ces dernières années
recent [ˈriːsnt] adj (event) → kürzlich;
(times) → letzte(r, s);
in recent years → in den letzten Jahren
recent [ˈriːsnt] adjrecente;
in recent years → negli ultimi anni

recent
adj recent [ˈriːsnt]
happening, done etc not long ago Things have changed in recent weeks; recent events.onlangsحَديث، قَريب العَهْدскорошенnedávnýsidste; senestevor kurzemπρόσφατοςrecientehiljutineتازه؛ جدیدviime-, äskeinenrécentשֶׁלא מִזמָןहाल काposljednjiújabb keletűmutakhirnÿlegurrecente最近の최근의pastaras, nesenasnesens; pēdējaisbaru-baru inilaatstsom nylig har funnet sted, ferskostatnirecenterecentнедавний; последнийnedávny, poslednýnedavenskorašnjisenaste, nyligen skeddเร็ว ๆ นี้yeni (olmuş), geçen最近的недавній, останнійحالیہgần đây
adv ˈrecently
He came to see me recently.onlangsمؤخَّراна скороnedávnofor nyligtkürzlichπρόσφαταrecientementehiljutiبه تازگی؛ اخیراviime aikoinarécemmentלַאַחֲרוֹנָהहाल मेंnedavno, u posljednje vrijememostanában, a napokbanbelum lamanÿlegarecentemente最近최근에neseniai, pastaruoju metunesen; pēdējā laikābaru-baru inionlangsnyligniedawno, ostatniorecentementerecent, curândнедавноnedávnonedavnonedavnonyligen, på sista tidenอย่างเร็วgeçenlerde近來не(що)давно; останнім часомحال میںgần đây

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Even the vexation consequent upon his recent adventure had vanished from his mind; and he could join in the hearty laughter, which any allusion to it excited in Mr.
If the periods be separated by short intervals, the measures to be reviewed and rectified will have been of recent date, and will be connected with all the circumstances which tend to vitiate and pervert the result of occasional revisions.
Auxiliaries, which are the other useless arm, are employed when a prince is called in with his forces to aid and defend, as was done by Pope Julius in the most recent times; for he, having, in the enterprise against Ferrara, had poor proof of his mercenaries, turned to auxiliaries, and stipulated with Ferdinand, King of Spain,[*] for his assistance with men and arms.
 
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