Main entry: Recent, Recent epoch, Holocene, Holocene epoch
Definition: approximately the last 10,000 years
Main entry: recent
Definition: new
Usage: recent graduates; a recent addition to the house; recent buds on the apple trees
Definition: of the immediate past or just previous to the present time
Usage: a late development; their late quarrel; his recent trip to Africa; in recent months; a recent issue of the journal