Recent
['riːs(ə)nt] or ['risnt]
Definition
(adj.) new; 'recent graduates'; 'a recent addition to the house'; 'recent buds on the apple trees' .
Typist: Willard--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) 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.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the present or existing epoch; as, recent shells.
Edited by Alta
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. New, novel, not long past.[2]. Late, fresh, newly come.[3]. Latter, modern.
Checker: Olivier
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Late, new, fresh, novel, modern, new-fangled
ANT:Ancient, antiquated, primitive, archaic
Typed by Borg
Definition
adj. of late origin or occurrence: fresh: modern: (geol.) belonging to the present geological period.—adv. Rē′cently.—n. Rē′centness.
Typed by Doreen
Examples
- This is the arm of which so much was heard during the recent war with Spain, and against which our soldiers had to contend. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But if you have followed recent events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his wedding? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Hunger and recent ill-usage are great assistants if you want to cry; and Oliver cried very naturally indeed. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- This brief direction to Charley Bates, and his recent antagonist, was softly and immediately obeyed. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- How unjustly, how capriciously, how cruelly, they have commonly exercised it, is too well known from recent experience. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A recent improvement in the handling of iron from the blast furnace is shown in Fig. 255. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In a recent and more restricted sense, it is applied to a machine that cuts grain, separates it into gavels, and binds it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- As a general belief it is still more recent. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And is no allowance to be made for inadvertence, or for spirits depressed by recent disappointment? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- May there not be something in these recent events which threatens her secret with discovery? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- In support of his view he cited a recent experiment. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It has been used of recent years to designate the skilled horsemen who have charge of the cattle on the great ranges of the West. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The moon was set, and it was very dark; Bessie carried a lantern, whose light glanced on wet steps and gravel road sodden by a recent thaw. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- And while he is deserving of gratitude for his actions in the early part of the movement and up until the most recent time-- Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The first sold prodigiously, the event being recent, and having made a great noise. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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