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

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