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recent 音标拼音: [r'isənt] a. 最近的,近代的,最新的,近世的 最近的,近代的,最新的,近世的 recent adj 1: new; " recent graduates"; " a recent addition to the house"; " recent buds on the apple trees" 2: 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" [ synonym: { late( a)}, { recent}] n 1: approximately the last 10, 000 years [ synonym: { Holocene}, { Holocene epoch}, { Recent}, { Recent epoch}] Recent \ Re" cent\ ( r[= e]" sent), a. [ L. recens, - entis: cf. F. r[' e] cent.] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster] The ancients were of opinion, that a considerable portion of that country [ Egypt] was recent, and formed out of the mud discharged into the neighboring sea by the Nile. -- Woodward. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Geol.) Of or pertaining to the present or existing epoch; as, recent shells. [ 1913 Webster] 36 Moby Thesaurus words for " recent": ancient, brand- new, current, early, erstwhile, fore, former, fresh, immemorial, just out, late, later, latest, latter, modern, modernistic, neoteric, new, new- fashioned, newfangled, newly come, novel, of yesterday, old, olden, once, onetime, past, prehistoric, previous, primeval, primitive, prior, quondam, sometime, then
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