recent

Borrowed from Latin recēns (genitive recentis).

• enPR: rē'sənt, IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːsənt/
• Hyphenation: re‧cent

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recent (comparative more recent, superlative most recent)

1. Having happened a short while ago.
   • 2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193:

     Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.

2. Up-to-date; not old-fashioned or dated.
3. 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.

4. (sciences) Particularly in geology, palaeontology, and astronomy: having occurred a relatively short time ago, but still potentially thousands or even millions of years ago.
5. (geology, astronomy, capitalised as "Recent") Of the Holocene, particularly pre-21st century.[1]

• nudiustertian (rare, obsolete (hapax legomenon))

• recently
• recent memory

• Center, Centre, center, centre, tenrec

Borrowed from Latin recens, recentem. First attested 1653[1]. See also rentar.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /rəˈsent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /rəˈsen/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /reˈsent/

recent (masculine and feminine plural recents)

1. recent

• rentar

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• Rhymes: -ɛnt

recent (comparative recenter, superlative recentst)

1. recent

From French récent.

recent m or n (feminine singular recentă, masculine plural recenți, feminine and neuter plural recente)

1. recent