recent

See also: récent and Recent

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin recēns (genitive recentis).

Pronunciation

• enPR: rē'sənt, IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːsənt/

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• Rhymes: -iːsənt
• Hyphenation: re‧cent

Adjective

recent (comparative more recent, superlative most recent)

1. Having happened a short while ago.

   Synonym: (rare, obsolete) nudiustertian

   • 2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 3, archived from the original on 22 February 2016, 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.
   • 2020 October 4, Evan Gough, “We Now Have Proof a Supernova Exploded Perilously Close to Earth 2.5 Million Years Ago”, in Science Alert:

     Finding it now means it was produced in more recent times, in astronomical terms.

Derived terms

• non-recent, nonrecent
• Recent
• recently
• recent memory, in recent memory

Translations

having happened a short while ago

Afrikaans: vars (af) Albanian: vonë (sq) Arabic: أَخِير (ʔaḵīr), جَدِيد (ar) (jadīd) Armenian: նորերս պատահած (norers patahac), վերջին (hy) (verǰin) Azerbaijani: təzə (az) Bengali: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: неотдавнашен (bg) (neotdavnašen) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Catalan: fresc (ca), recent (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 最近 (zeoi3 gan6), 近排 (gan6 paai4, gan6 paai4-2), 呢排 (ni1 paai4, ni1 paai4-2, nei1 paai4, nei1 paai4-2) Mandarin: 最近 (zh) (zuì jìn) Cornish: a-dhiwedhes Czech: nedávný m Danish: frisk, nylig Dutch: recent (nl) Esperanto: lasta (eo), lastatempa Estonian: äsjane (et), hiljutine Faroese: feskur Finnish: tuore (fi), äskeinen (fi), äskettäinen, hiljattainen, taannoinen (fi), viimeaikainen (fi) French: récent (fr) Galician: recente (gl) Georgian: ახალი (axali), ახლანდელი (axlandeli), უახლესი (uaxlesi), ბოლოდროინდელი (bolodroindeli) German: neu (de), kürzlich (de), rezent (de), frisch (de) Greek: πρόσφατος (el) (prósfatos) Ancient: πρόσφατος (prósphatos) Haitian Creole: resan Hawaiian: please add this translation if you can Hebrew: אחרון (he) (aharon) Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: nem régi (literally “not old”) (used as a fixed phrase), legutóbbi (hu) (literally “latest”), friss (hu) (literally “fresh”) Icelandic: nýlegur (is) Ido: recenta (io) Indonesian: baru saja Ingrian: taanolliin Irish: deireanach Italian: recente (it) Japanese: 最近 (ja) (さいきん, saikin) Khmer: ថ្មី (km) (tməy) Korean: 최근 (ko) (choegeun) Lao: please add this translation if you can Latin: recens, nūperus Latvian: nesens Limburgish: recènte Lithuanian: naujas (lt) Malay: please add this translation if you can Malayalam: സമീപകാല (samīpakāla) Maori: please add this translation if you can Mongolian: саяхан (mn) (sajaxan) Norman: récent Norwegian: nylig Papiamentu: fresku Persian: تازه (fa) (tâza), اخیر (fa) (axir) Polish: ostatni (pl), świeży (pl), niedawny (pl) Portuguese: recente (pt) Punjabi: [script needed] (حالیہ) Quechua: musuq Romanian: recent (ro) Russian: неда́вний (ru) (nedávnij) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: недавни, нов Roman: nedavni (sh), nov (sh) Slovak: nedávny Spanish: reciente (es) Sranan Tongo: fersi Swahili: karibuni (sw) Swedish: ny (sv), nylig (sv) Tagalog: kararaan Tamil: please add this translation if you can Telugu: ఇటీవలి (te) (iṭīvali) Thai: เร็วๆ นี้ (reo-reo née) Tibetan: please add this translation if you can Turkish: yeni (tr) Ukrainian: оста́нній (uk) (ostánnij), неда́вній (nedávnij), нещода́вній (neščodávnij) Uyghur: débaya Vietnamese: gần đây (vi) Welsh: diweddar (cy) West Frisian: farsk Yiddish: אַנומלטיק (anumltik), פֿריש (frish), לעצט (letst), נײַ (nay) Yucatec Maya: aakʼ

Noun

recent (plural recents)

1. (computing, graphical user interface) A recently viewed or accessed item.
   • 2012, Jason R. Rich, Your iPad 2 at Work, page 308:

     Obviously, the first time you launch this app, your Recents list is empty.

Anagrams

• Center, Centre, center, centre, tenrec