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Definition of Recent
Recent

Of late origin, existence, or occurrence; lately come; not of remote date, antiquated style, or the like; not already known, familiar, worn out, trite, etc.; fresh; novel; new; modern; as, recent news.

Of or pertaining to the present or existing epoch; as, recent shells.

Related Definitions:
Already, Antiquated, As, Come, Date, Epoch, Existence, Existing, Familiar, Fresh, Known, Late, Lately, Like, Modern, New, News, Not, Novel, Occurrence, Of, Or, Origin, Out, Pertaining, Present, Recent, Remote, Style, The, To, Trite, Worn


Recent Quotations

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
George Carlin

A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.
Dennis Miller

In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.
Robert Mugabe

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
Joseph Addison

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
Aeschylus

In recent years, we have been sending a clear, consistent signal about the harms of drugs, particularly marijuana, which for most young people is the first illegal drug that they are exposed to.
John Walters

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
Michel Foucault

As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
Michel Foucault

But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.
Daniel Goleman

The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science.
Werner Heisenberg

Recent Translations

recent in Afrikaans is vars
recent in Danish is frisk
recent in Dutch is luchtig, fris, vers, onbedorven
recent in Finnish is tuore
recent in Italian is novizio, moderno
recent in Latin is repens
recent in Norwegian is frisk
recent in Portuguese is recente
recent in Spanish is reciente, recien, fresco
recent in Swedish is nya


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