Associations to the word «Recent»

Wiktionary

RECENT, adjective. Having happened a short while ago.
RECENT, adjective. Up-to-date; not old-fashioned or dated.
RECENT, adjective. Having done something a short while ago that distinguishes them as what they are called.

Dictionary definition

RECENT, noun. Approximately the last 10,000 years.
RECENT, adjective. New; "recent graduates"; "a recent addition to the house"; "recent buds on the apple trees".
RECENT, adjective. 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".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King