1. New
   "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
   "his recent trip to Africa"; "in recent months"; "a recent issue of the journal"
   - late

1. Approximately the last 10,000 years
   - Holocene, Holocene epoch, Recent epoch

See also: new, past, recency, recently, recentness

Type of: epoch

Part of: Age of Man, Quaternary, Quaternary period

Encyclopedia: Recent

• woolen
• Woolf
• woolgather
• woolgatherer
• woolgathering
• Woollcott
• woollen
• Woolley
• woolliness
• woolly
• woolly adelgid
• woolly alder aphid
• woolly aphid
• woolly apple aphid
• woolly bear
• woolly bear caterpillar
• woolly bear moth
• woolly daisy
• woolly indris
• woolly mammoth
• woolly manzanita
• woolly monkey
• woolly mullein
• woolly plant louse
• woolly rhinoceros