noun
- Approximately the last 10, 000 years.
- synonyms: Holocene, Holocene epoch, Recent epoch
adjective
- New.
- usage: "recent graduates"; "a recent addition to the house"; "recent buds on the apple trees"
- Of the immediate past or just previous to the present time.
- usage: "a late development"; "their late quarrel"; "his recent trip to Africa"; "in recent months"; "a recent issue of the journal"
- synonyms: late
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