Recent - Definition
recent
adj 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;
"a late development"; "their late quarrel"; "his recent trip
to Africa"; "in recent months"; "a recent issue of the
journal" [syn: late(a), recent]
n 1: approximately the last 10,000 years [syn: Holocene,
Holocene epoch, Recent, Recent epoch]