recent
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
recent/ˈriːsnt/
▶adjective
- 1 having happened or been done lately; belonging to a period of time not long ago.
- 2 (Recent) Geology another term for Holocene.
– derivatives
recency noun,
recently adverb,
recentness noun.
recency noun,
recently adverb,
recentness noun.
– origin ME: from L. recens, recent- or Fr. récent.
'recent' also found in these Oxford entries:
blow-in
- combat fatigue
- demand
- Down's syndrome
- Eskimo
- ethnic
- house officer
- intern
- kainite
- Korsakoff's syndrome
- last
- late
- latter
- literally
- mental handicap
- modern
- modern-day
- neoteric
- news
- nigger
- quaternary
- queer
- race
- retro
- rusty
- up-
- write-up
- yesterday
- yesteryear
