Recent definition
Modern; new.
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Done, made, etc. just before the present time; modern; new.
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(geology) Of, relating to, or being the Holocene Epoch.
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Of a time just before the present.
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Of, belonging to, or occurring at a time immediately before the present.
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Designating or of the Holocene Epoch of geologic time.
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The definition of recent is something that happened just a short time ago.
An event that happened an hour ago is an example of an event that would be described as recent.
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Having done something a short while ago that distinguishes them as what they are called.
The cause has several hundred recent donors.
I met three recent graduates at the conference.
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the Recent
- the Holocene Epoch or its rocks
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