recent

The definition of recent is something that happened just a short time ago.

(adjective)

An event that happened an hour ago is an example of an event that would be described as recent.

See recent in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

Origin: MFr < L recens < re-, again + IE base *ken-, emerge freshly, new > Gr kainos, new

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See recent in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Of, belonging to, or occurring at a time immediately before the present.
Modern; new.
Recent Geology Of, belonging to, or denoting the Holocene Epoch. See Table at geologic time.

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Origin: Middle English, new, fresh

Origin: , from Latin recēns, recent-; see ken- in Indo-European roots

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