Recent

Pronunciation

• enPR: rÄ“'sÉ™nt, IPA: /ˈɹiːsÉ™nt/

Origin

Latin recēns (genitive recentis).

Full definition of recent

Adjective

1. Having happened a short while ago.
• 2013, Katie L. Burke, In the News, 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.

Derived terms

• recently
• recent memory

Anagrams

• center, centre, Centre, tenrec