Hypertext Webster Gateway: "recent"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Recent \Re"cent\, a. [L. recens, -entis: cf. F. r['e]cent.]
1. Of late origin, existence, or occurrence; lately come; not
of remote date, antiquated style, or the like; not already
known, familiar, worn out, trite, etc.; fresh; novel; new;
modern; as, recent news.
The ancients were of opinion, that a considerable
portion of that country [Egypt] was recent, and
formed out of the mud discharged into the
neighboring sea by the Nile. --Woodward.
2. (Geol.) Of or pertaining to the present or existing epoch;
as, recent shells.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
recent
adj 1: being new in a time not long past; "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;
"a late development"; "their late quarrel"; "his recent
trip to Africa"; "in recent months"; "a recent issue of
the journal" [syn: {late(a)}]
3: near to or not long before the present; "recent times"; "of
recent origin"
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