| recent | | |
| n. (time) | 1. holocene, holocene epoch, recent, recent epoch | approximately the last 10,000 years. |
| ~ age of man, quaternary, quaternary period | last 2 million years. |
| ~ epoch | a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages. |
| adj. | 2. recent | new.; "recent graduates"; "a recent addition to the house"; "recent buds on the apple trees" |
| ~ new | not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered.; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World" |
| adj. | 3. late, recent | of the immediate past or just previous to the present time.; "a late development"; "their late quarrel"; "his recent trip to Africa"; "in recent months"; "a recent issue of the journal" |
| ~ past | earlier than the present time; no longer current.; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year" |
| lately | | |
| adv. | 1. late, lately, latterly, of late, recently | in the recent past.; "he was in Paris recently"; "lately the rules have been enforced"; "as late as yesterday she was fine"; "feeling better of late"; "the spelling was first affected, but latterly the meaning also" |
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