RECENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Recent mean? 

• RECENT (noun)
  The noun RECENT has 1 sense:

1. approximately the last 10,000 years

  Familiarity information: RECENT used as a noun is very rare.

• RECENT (adjective)
  The adjective RECENT has 2 senses:

1. new

2. of the immediate past or just previous to the present time

  Familiarity information: RECENT used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Approximately the last 10,000 years

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Holocene; Holocene epoch; Recent; Recent epoch

Instance hypernyms:

epoch (a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages)

Holonyms ("Recent" is a part of...):

Age of Man; Quaternary; Quaternary period (last 2 million years)

• RECENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

New

Context example:

recent buds on the apple trees

Similar:

new (not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered)

Derivation:

recency; recentness (the property of having happened or appeared not long ago)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of the immediate past or just previous to the present time

Synonyms:

late; recent

Context example:

a recent issue of the journal

Similar:

past (earlier than the present time; no longer current)

Derivation:

recency (the property of having happened or appeared not long ago)

recentness (a time immediately before the present)

 Context examples 

The formation of new or recent blood vessels.

(Neoangiogenesis, NCI Thesaurus)

You may have been waiting for this money—possibly held up due to the recent tour of retrograde Mercury in Pisces.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Recent information about specific and timely events.

(News, NCI Thesaurus)

Most recent evidence suggests that rare cases may express the FUS-CREB3L1 fusion protein.

(Low Grade Fibromyxoid Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The most recent week, including today.

(Past Week, NCI Thesaurus)

Recent studies have revealed that chromatin structure can be altered by covalent modification of nucleosomes, in particular acetylation and methylation of the core histone tails.

(Gene Silencing Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

An individual that has had limited exposure to an individual with tuberculosis and has a low probability of having had a recent infection.

(Low-priority Tuberculosis Subject, NCI Thesaurus)

The date of the most recent occurrence of heart failure.

(Date of Most Recent Heart Failure, NCI Thesaurus)

I have just been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the particulars.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was the way I wanted to go, and it showed signs of recent travel.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)