Overview of noun recent

The noun recent has 1 sense

• Holocene, Holocene epoch, Recent, Recent epoch -- (approximately the last 10,000 years)

Overview of adj recent

The adj recent has 2 senses

• recent -- (new; "recent graduates"; "a recent addition to the house"; "recent buds on the apple trees")


• late, 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")