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

• state-of-the-art
• state-sponsored terrorism
• state-supported
• statecraft
• stated
• statehood
• Statehouse
• stateless
• stateless person
• statelessness
• stateliness
• stately
• stately home
• statement
• Staten Island
• stater
• stateroom
• States General
• states' rights
• States' Rights Democratic Party
• stateside
• statesman
• statesmanlike
• statesmanly
• statesmanship