recent

Meanings

• approximately the last 10,000 years
• new
  • "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
  • "his recent trip to Africa"
  • "in recent months"
  • "a recent issue of the journal"

Synonyms

Holocene, Holocene epoch, late, Recent epoch