recent

(noun, adjective)

adjective

1. new

- recent graduates

- a recent addition to the house

- recent buds on the apple trees

Similar word(s): new

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

- his recent trip to Africa

- in recent months

- a recent issue of the journal

Similar word(s): past, late

Sentences with recent as an adjective:

- The cause has several hundred recent donors.

- I met three recent graduates at the conference.

noun

1. approximately the last 10,000 years

Similar word(s): holocene

Definition categories: time