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Borrowed from Latin recēns (genitive recentis).

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: rē'sənt, IPA(key): /ˈɹiː.sənt/
• (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈɹi.sənt/
• (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈɹiː.sənt/, (cultivated) [ˈɹɪiː.sənt], (general) [ˈɹɪ̈i.sənt]
• (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈɹiː.sənt/
• Hyphenation: re‧cent
• Rhymes: -iːsənt

recent (comparative more recent, superlative most recent)

1. Having happened a short while ago.
   Synonym: (rare, obsolete) nudiustertian
   • 2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist‎[1], volume 101, number 3, archived from the original on 22 February 2016, 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.
4. (sciences) Particularly in geology, palaeontology, and astronomy: having occurred a relatively short time ago, but still potentially thousands or even millions of years ago.

• non-recent, nonrecent
• recency
• Recent
• recentish
• recentism
• recently
• recent memory, in recent memory
• recentness
• semirecent
• subrecent
• unrecent

having happened a short while ago

• Afrikaans: vars (af)
• Albanian: vonë (sq)
• Arabic: أَخِير (ʔaḵīr), جَدِيد (ar) (jadīd)
• Armenian: նորերս պատահած (norers patahac), վերջին (hy) (verǰin)
• Azerbaijani: təzə (az)
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: неотдавнашен (bg) (neotdavnašen)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: fresc (ca), recent (ca)
• Chinese:
  Cantonese: 最近 (zeoi3 gan6), 近排 (gan6 paai4, gan6 paai4-2), 呢排 (ni1 paai4, ni1 paai4-2, nei1 paai4, nei1 paai4-2)
  Mandarin: 最近 (zh) (zuì jìn)
• Cornish: a-dhiwedhes
• Czech: nedávný (cs) m
• Danish: frisk, nylig
• Dutch: recent (nl)
• Esperanto: lasta (eo), lastatempa
• Estonian: äsjane (et), hiljutine
• Faroese: feskur
• Finnish: tuore (fi), äskeinen (fi), äskettäinen, hiljattainen (fi), taannoinen (fi), viimeaikainen (fi)
• French: récent (fr)
• Frisian:
  West Frisian: farsk
• Galician: recente (gl)
• Georgian: ახალი (axali), ახლანდელი (axlandeli), უახლესი (uaxlesi), ბოლოდროინდელი (bolodroindeli)
• German: neu (de), kürzlich (de), rezent (de), frisch (de)
• Greek: πρόσφατος (el) (prósfatos)
  Ancient Greek: πρόσφατος (prósphatos)
• Haitian Creole: resan
• Hawaiian: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: אחרון (he) (aharon)
• Hindi: हालिया (hi) (hāliyā)
• Hungarian: nem régi (literally “not old”) (used as a fixed phrase), legutóbbi (hu) (literally “latest”), friss (hu) (literally “fresh”)
• Icelandic: nýlegur (is)
• Ido: recenta (io)
• Indonesian: baru saja
• Ingrian: taanolliin
• Irish: deireanach
• Italian: recente (it)
• Japanese: 最近 (ja) (さいきん, saikin)
• Khmer: ថ្មី (km) (tməy)
• Korean: 최근 (ko) (choegeun)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: recēns, nūperus
• Latvian: nesens
• Limburgish: recènte
• Lithuanian: naujas (lt)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Malayalam: സമീപകാല (samīpakāla)
• Māori: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: саяхан (mn) (sajaxan)
• Norman: récent
• Norwegian: nylig
• Papiamentu: fresku
• Persian: تازه (fa) (tâza), اخیر (fa) (axir)
• Polish: ostatni (pl), świeży (pl), niedawny (pl)
• Portuguese: recente (pt)
• Punjabi: [script needed] (حالیہ)
• Quechua: musuq
• Romanian: recent (ro)
• Russian: неда́вний (ru) (nedávnij)
• Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: недавни, нов
  Latin: nedavni (sh), nov (sh)
• Slovak: nedávny
• Spanish: reciente (es), recental
• Sranan Tongo: fersi
• Swahili: karibuni (sw)
• Swedish: ny (sv), nylig (sv)
• Tagalog: kararaan
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: ఇటీవలి (te) (iṭīvali)
• Thai: เร็วๆ นี้ (reo-reo née)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: yeni (tr)
• Ukrainian: оста́нній (uk) (ostánnij), неда́вній (nedávnij), нещода́вній (neščodávnij)
• Urdu: حالیہ (hāliya)
• Uyghur: débaya
• Vietnamese: gần đây (vi)
• Welsh: diweddar (cy)
• Yiddish: אַנומלטיק (anumltik), פֿריש (frish), לעצט (letst), נײַ (nay)
• Yucatec Maya: aakʼ

recent (plural recents)

1. (computing, graphical user interface) A recently viewed or accessed item.
   • 2012, Jason R. Rich, Your iPad 2 at Work, page 308:
     Obviously, the first time you launch this app, your Recents list is empty.

• Center, Centre, center, centre, tenrec

Borrowed from Latin recentem. First attested in 1653.[1] See also rentar.

• IPA(key): (Central) [rəˈsen]
• IPA(key): (Balearic) [rəˈsent]
• IPA(key): (Valencia) [reˈsent]

recent m or f (masculine and feminine plural recents)

1. recent

• recentment
• rentar

1. ^ “recent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

• “recent”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “recent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “recent”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Borrowed from French récent, from Middle French [Term?], from Latin recēns.

• IPA(key): /rəˈsɛnt/, /reːˈsɛnt/
• Hyphenation: re‧cent
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

recent (comparative recenter, superlative recentst)

1. recent

• recentelijk

Borrowed from French récent, from Latin recēns. Doublet of rece, which was inherited.

recent m or n (feminine singular recentă, masculine plural recenți, feminine/neuter plural recente)

1. recent