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Recent

adjective

New. "A recent addition to the house" , "Recent buds on the apple trees"

Of the immediate past or just previous to the present time. Synonym: late. "Their late quarrel" , "His recent trip to Africa" , "In recent months" , "A recent issue of the journal"

noun

Approximately the last 10,000 years. Synonyms: Holocene, Holocene epoch, Recent epoch.

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"Recent" Quotes from Famous Books

... The more recent gales and floods do not appear to have injuriously affected the dredged cuttings of the Brisbane River. Several new beacons have been erected to replace those blown down or found defective; and, to render them more conspicuous, ...

— Report on the Department of Ports and Harbours for the Year 1890-1891 • Department of Ports and Harbours

... were walking slowly along the road from the neat little parish church. It was a Sunday morning. Not a breath of wind stirred the balmy and spring-like air. A recent thaw had removed much of the snow, leaving the fields quite bare, the roads slippery, and the ice on the river like ...

— The Fourth Watch • H. A. Cody

... fairly well furnished, but old-fashioned, and lit by an oil-lamp upon the table. The air was heavy with tobacco-smoke, and near the window was a card-table whereat four players had been seated. The cigar-ash bore testimony to recent occupation of the four chairs, while two packs of cards had been flung down just ...

— Hushed Up - A Mystery of London • William Le Queux

... contained in the Ocean. Thou art exceedingly stable and fixed (being of the form of mountains and hills). Thou art Kapila. Thou art brown. Thou art all the hues whose mixture produces white. Thou art the period of life. Thou art ancient. Thou art recent. Thou art a Gandharva. Thou art the mother of the celestials in the form of Aditi (or the mother of all things, in the form of Earth). Thou art Garuda, the prince of birds, born of Vinata by Kasyapa, otherwise called Tarkshya. Thou ...

— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 • Kisari Mohan Ganguli

... nothing more to fear from his enemies, Jack left the shop to go to his home, his mind soon occupied with thoughts of his South American voyage rather than with the more unpleasant memory of his recent trouble with young ...

— Jack North's Treasure Hunt - Daring Adventures in South America • Roy Rockwood

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