recent
Meaning of recent
adjective
- Having happened a short while ago.
- Up-to-date; not old-fashioned or dated.
- Having done something a short while ago that distinguishes them as what they are called.
I met three recent graduates at the conference.
- Particularly in geology, palaeontology, and astronomy: having occurred a relatively short time ago, but still potentially thousands or even millions of years ago.
- (capitalised as "Recent") Of the Holocene, particularly pre-21st century.
Information about recent
- It is an adjective.
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CatalanHyphenation of recent
re-cent
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- recent is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
recent synonyms
Meaning late:
Meaning Holocene:
Translation of recent
- German: neu, kürzlich
- Spanish: nuevo, reciente, nueva
- Italian: recente
- French: récent
- Portuguese: recente
Anagrams of recent
Center, center, Centre, centre, entrec, tenrec
Words that rhyme with recent
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