recent

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
Only in recent years (and perhaps too late) has the language been put into written form in an effort to preserve and standardize it.

View all »
Definitions (13)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (3)

  1. adjective Of, belonging to, or occurring at a time immediately before the present.
  2. adjective Modern; new.
  3. adjective Geology Of, belonging to, or denoting the Holocene Epoch. See Table at geologic time.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (6)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (3)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples

  • Heather, with a lifetime of relying on her finely tuned senses, disregarded them as she let rage control her. —  Cry Mercy Cry Love
  • Only in recent years (and perhaps too late) has the language been put into written form in an effort to preserve and standardize it. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3
  • A few potters still survive and in recent years have enjoyed a modest revival, based on the carriage trade from Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and other urban areas, plus the occasional Yankee tourist who has read about the potters and goes out of his way to find them. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 2
  • I have noticed many more in recent years, but unfortunately I have not made a note of them. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 4
  • 75 per cent of subscribers renew; in recent years, the response has been 100 per cent to the renewal notices attached to certain issues. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

Recent has been looked up 13771 times, favorited 0 times, listed 6 times, and commented on 0 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

previous ·  late ·  major
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (2)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Middle English, new, fresh, from Latin recēns, recent-; see ken- in Indo-European roots.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. from Old French recent, French récent =Provencal recent =Spanish reciente =Portuguese Italian recente, from Latin recen (t-)s, fresh, new; (a) in one view, from re- + -cen (t-)s, supposed to be allied to W. cynt, first, earliest, Sanskrit kanīyāṅs, smaller, kanistha, smallest (cf. Russian po-chinatǐ, begin): (b) in another view, orig. present participle from a root *rec =Zend √ raç, come (cf. recens a victoria, ‘just coming from a victory’; Rhodo recentes Romam venerunt, ‘ they came to Rome just from Rhodes,’ etc.: see def. 5).
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ˈrisənt/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word several times a day.

Recent Lookups

postindustrial · high-priced · Timpview · plain · Howth

Recent Favorites

supine · doxastic · bissextile day · airship · cloud-shadows

Recent Pronunciations

milosrdenstvi · lichen-covered · futon · sagacity · monoragngocious