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Meaning of recent

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  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" [syn: {late(a)}, {recent}]
      n 1: approximately the last 10,000 years [syn: {Holocene},
           {Holocene epoch}, {Recent}, {Recent epoch}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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