recent
pronunciation
How to pronounce recent in British English:
UK [ˈriːsnt]
How to pronounce recent in American English:
US [ˈriːsnt]
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- Adjective:
- being new in a time not long past
- of the immediate past or just previous to the present time
- near to or not long before the present
Word Origin
- recent
- recent: [16] English acquired recent from Latin recēns ‘new, fresh’, possibly via French récent. It is not clear where the Latin word came from, although some have linked it with Greek kainós ‘new’ (source of the English geological term cainozoic [19]) and Sanskrit kanīna- ‘young’.
- recent (adj.)
- early 15c., from Latin recentem (nominative recens) "lately done or made, new, fresh, young," from re- (see re-) + PIE root *ken- (2) "fresh, new, young" (cognates: Greek kainos "new;" Sanskrit kanina- "young;" Old Irish cetu- "first;" Old Church Slavonic načino "to begin," koni "beginning"). Related: Recently; recentness (1670s, but OED reports recency (1610s) was "Common in 19th c.").
Synonym
Example
- 1. More recent home-sales data have been similarly downbeat .
- 2. The recent signals are still mixed .
- 3. Another oddity has been the recent performance of gold .
- 4. Inverting the rise and fall is a recent idea .
- 5. One recent biographer accused the victorian art critic of being a paedophile .