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We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
Zbigniew Brzezinski

Meaning of "recent" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD RECENT

From Latin recens fresh; related to Greek kainos new.
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PRONUNCIATION OF RECENT

recent  [ˈriːsənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RECENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Recent is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES RECENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

recent

Holocene

The Holocene /ˈhɒlɵsiːn/ is a geological epoch which began at the end of the Pleistocene and continues to the present. The Holocene is part of the Quaternary period. Its name comes from the Greek words ὅλος and καινός, meaning "entirely recent". It has been identified with the current warm period, known as MIS 1 and based on that past evidence, can be considered an interglacial in the current ice age. The Holocene also encompasses within it the growth and impacts of the human species world-wide, including all its written history and overall significant transition toward urban living in the present. Human impacts of the modern era on the Earth and its ecosystems may be considered of global significance for future evolution of living species, including approximately synchronous lithospheric evidence, or more recently atmospheric evidence of human impacts. Given these, a new term Anthropocene, is specifically proposed and used informally only for the very latest part of modern history and of significant human impact since the epoch of the Neolithic Revolution.

Definition of recent in the English dictionary

The definition of recent in the dictionary is having appeared, happened, or been made not long ago; modern, fresh, or new.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RECENT


abducent
æbˈdjuːsənt
adducent
əˈdjuːsənt
bawsunt
ˈbɔːsənt
conversant
kənˈvɜːsənt
decent
ˈdiːsənt
degreasant
diːˈɡriːsənt
dispersant
dɪsˈpɜːsənt
indecent
ɪnˈdiːsənt
lucent
ˈluːsənt
noctilucent
ˌnɒktɪˈluːsənt
persant
ˈpɜːsənt
radiolucent
ˌreɪdɪəʊˈluːsənt
relucent
rɪˈluːsənt
semilucent
ˌsɛmɪˈluːsənt
semitranslucent
ˌsɛmɪtrænsˈluːsənt
tergiversant
ˈtɜːdʒɪˌvɜːsənt
tergiversator
ˈtɜːdʒɪˌvɜːsənt
translucent
trænzˈluːsənt
usedn´t
ˈjuːsənt
versant
ˈvɜːsənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RECENT

receiver
receivership
receiving line
receiving order
receiving set
recency
recency effect
recense
recension
recensor
recenter
recently
recentness
recentre
recentrifuge
recept
receptacle
receptacula
receptacular
receptaculum

WORDS THAT END LIKE RECENT

accent
adjacent
adolescent
ascent
cent
crescent
descent
fluorescent
incandescent
innocent
line of descent
magnificent
maleficent
per cent
precent
Red Crescent
reminiscent
Saint Vincent
scent
Vincent

Synonyms and antonyms of recent in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «RECENT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «recent» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of recent

Translation of «recent» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RECENT

Find out the translation of recent to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of recent from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «recent» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

新近的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

reciente
570 millions of speakers

English

recent
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

हाल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أَخِير
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

недавний
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

recente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সাম্প্রতিক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

récent
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Baru-baru ini
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

kürzlich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

最近の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

최근의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Anyar
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

gần đây
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அண்மையில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अलीकडील
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

son
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

recente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ostatni
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

недавній
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

recent
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πρόσφατος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onlangse
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nylig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nylig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of recent

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RECENT»

The term «recent» is very widely used and occupies the 618 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RECENT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about recent

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10 QUOTES WITH «RECENT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word recent.
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Mose Allison
I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial.
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Derek Bailey
Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.
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George Pierce Baker
What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.
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Jo Bonner
President Bush, Secretary of State Rice, and several cabinet level officials have visited Alabama's Gulf Coast in recent days to tour the devastation and to offer their continuing support and prayers for everyone affected by the storm.
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Zbigniew Brzezinski
Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.
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Zbigniew Brzezinski
We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
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John le Carre
We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.
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John Bates Clark
In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices, it was held that the seller of a patented mimeograph could bind the purchaser to use only his ink in the machine, though the ink was not patented.
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Kenneth Clarke
If the prime minister really believes it, he must be the only person left who thinks that the recent bombs in London had no connection at all with his policy in Iraq.
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Nigel Cole
It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they've really become just comedies where the love story is only there as a spine to hang the jokes on.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RECENT»

Discover the use of recent in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to recent and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Recent Theories of Narrative
This book ranges over the entitle spectrum of recent theories of narrative to show how they have altered our understanding not only of fiction but of nonfictional forms such as biography and historical writing.
Wallace Martin, 1986
2
Recent Advances in Mineral Processing Plant Design
A compilation of engaging and insightful papers from the prestigious 2009 Plant Design Symposium, the volume is a sequel to Mineral Processing Plant Design, Practice, and Control, an industry standard published in 2002.
Deepak Malhotra, Patrick Taylor, Erik Spiller, 2009
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Recent Advances in Physiotherapy
This book of recent advances provides readers with a way of keeping up-to-date with recent work in the discipline of physiotherapy, based on the evidence for current practice.
Cecily Partridge, 2007
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Recent Advances in Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery
With contributions from internationally recognised experts in the USA, Europe, Middle East and Asia, this manual examines the recent advances and new surgical techniques in otolaryngology.
Markus H. F. Pfister, 2012
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Recent Advances in Ophthalmology - 10
With contributions from leading international experts in the field of ophthalmology, this book includes almost 100 well-illustrated images to assist in the understanding of the new technologies.
HV Nema, Nitin Nema, 2011
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Recent Research on the Late Antique Countryside
A complex picture of differing regional trajectories emerges, whilst cultural change is everywhere apparent, in phenomena such as Christianisation, settlement nucleation and fortification."--BOOK JACKET.
William Bowden, Luke Lavan, Carlos Machado, 2004
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Recent Trends in Thermoelectric Materials Research III
This is the most complete collection of review articles that are primarily focussed on new materials and new concepts that is existence to date.
Terry M. Tritt, 2001
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Recent Advances in Plant Biotechnology and Its Applications: ...
The present book is divided into five sections. The first section deals with the methodology and bioresource generation, techniques related to genetic engineering, and gene transfer to the nuclear genome and chloroplast genome.
‎2008
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Doing Recent History: On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, ...
Explores the difficulties of writing histories of recent events, due to the lack of perspective, hindsight, and developed historiography.
Claire Bond Potter, Renee Christine Romano, 2012
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Computed Tomography: Principles, Design, Artifacts, and ...
Image display is examined from traditional methods through the most recent advancments. Key performance indices, theories behind the measuremet methodologies, and different measurement phantoms in image quality are discussed.
Jiang Hsieh, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RECENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term recent is used in the context of the following news items.
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Skype for Android 5.6 adds 'Recent' tab to catch up on all your …
The update includes a lot of touches to eliminate visual clutter and help you switch quickly between different chat sessions. «Greenbot, Jul 15»
2
Conway declares state of emergency due to 'recent criminal activity'
Conway, N.C. — The mayor of a small town in Northampton County issued a state of emergency Friday due to what he called "recent criminal activity" in the area ... «WRAL.com, Jul 15»
3
Recent wet weather may bring more Lake Erie algae
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) – Heavy rains that have fallen across northern Ohio in recent weeks are washing more phosphorus into the rivers that flow into Lake Erie. «WKBN.com, Jun 15»
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Recent rain spikes level of dangerous bacteria in waters
Health experts say there's always bacteria and amoebas in lakes and beaches, but right now there's a higher elevation due to recent rain. "When I look into the ... «KPRC Houston, Jun 15»
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Citizens hold rally, demand change after recent violence
Citizens hold rally, demand change after recent violence. Published 8:13 AM EDT Jun 17, 2015. NEXT STORY. Search continues for people missing in eastern ... «WLKY Louisville, Jun 15»
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Recent rain causing problems for Omaha homeowners
Rohe said more than 850 people have called Thrasher in one day after the recent storms. With more rain on the radar, there's more work to be done. «KETV Omaha, Jun 15»
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Recent rain attracts crowds to Lake Meredith
Fritch, TX - Recent rainfall across the area attracted crowds to Lake Meredith over Memorial Day Weekend. Since Friday alone, the lake rose about a foot. «KFDA, May 15»
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Recent rain helps New Mexico lake levels
It's not a bad time, either, with recent rain some popular destinations around the state are seeing ... Then, in recent weeks, the area saw even more precipitation. «KRQE News 13, May 15»
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Experts: Recent rains end worst of years-old Texas drought
DALLAS (AP) — Recent heavy rains have helped Texas emerge from the worst of the years-long drought. The U.S. Drought Monitor on Thursday indicated ... «KXAN.com, May 15»
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In India's grain bowl, recent rains ease weak monsoon worries
NEW DELHI Recent unseasonal rainfall in India has come as a blessing for some farmers as it has replenished reservoirs in parts of the country, allaying ... «Reuters, May 15»

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