recent

See also: récent

English

Etymology

Latin recēns (genitive recentis).

Pronunciation

• enPR: rē'sənt, IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːsənt/

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Adjective

recent (comparative more recent, superlative most recent)

1. Having happened a short while ago.
   • 2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193: 

     Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.

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

   The cause has several hundred recent donors.

   I met three recent graduates at the conference.

Derived terms

• recently
• recent memory

Translations

having happened a short while ago

• Afrikaans: vars
• Albanian: vonë
• Arabic: أخير (’axīr), جديد (ar) (jadīd)
• Azeri: təzə
• Bulgarian: неотдавнашен (bg) (neotdavnašen)
• Catalan: fresc, recent (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 最近 (zh) (zuì jìn)

• Czech: nedávný m
• Danish: frisk, nylig
• Dutch: recent (nl)
• Esperanto: lasta, lastatempa
• Estonian: äsjane (et), hiljutine
• Faroese: feskur
• Finnish: tuore (fi), äskeinen (fi)
• French: récent (fr)
• Galician: recente (gl)
• Georgian: ახალი (axali)
• German: jüngst (de), neu (de), kürzlich (de)
• Greek: πρόσφατος (el) (prósfatos)
• Haitian Creole: resan
• Hebrew: אחרון (aharon)
• Hungarian: nem régi
• Indonesian: baru saja
• Irish: deireanach
• Italian: recente (it)
• Japanese: 最近 (ja) (さいきん, saikin)
• Jèrriais: récent
• Korean: 최근 (ko) (chwigeun)
• Latvian: nesens

• Limburgish: recènte
• Lithuanian: naujas (lt)
• Mongolian: саяхан (sajahan)
• Norwegian: nylig
• Papiamentu: fresku
• Persian: تازه (fa) (tāza), اخیر (fa) (axir)
• Polish: ostatni (pl), świeży (pl) m, niedawny
• Portuguese: recente (pt)
• Punjabi: please add this translation if you can: hul
• Romanian: recent (ro)
• Russian: недавний (ru) (nedávnij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: недавни, нов

  Roman: nedavni, nov

• Slovak: nedávny
• Spanish: reciente (es)
• Sranan: fersi
• Swahili: karibuni (sw)
• Swedish: ny (sv)
• Tagalog: kararaan
• Telugu: ఇటీవలి (te) (iteevali)
• Thai: เร็วๆ นี้ (reo-reo née)
• Turkish: yeni (tr)
• Ukrainian: останній (ostánnij)
• Uyghur: débaya
• Vietnamese: gần đây (vi)
• Welsh: diweddar (cy)
• West Frisian: farsk
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can: frish
• Yucatec: aak'

Anagrams

• center, centre, Centre, tenrec

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Adjective

recent (comparative recenter, superlative recentst)

1. recent

Declension

Declension of recent

		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		recent	recenter	het recentst het recentste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	recente	recentere	recentste
	n. sing.	recent	recenter	recentste
	plural	recente	recentere	recentste
definite		recente	recentere	recentste
partitive		recents	recenters	—