English-Dutch translations for recent

• recent
  Recente aardbeving in Haïti (debat) Recent earthquake in Haiti (debate)
  Wat leren ons de recente crises? What do recent crises show us?
  Kosovo was daarvan het meest recente voorbeeld. Kosovo has been the most recent example.
• vers

Definition of recent

• Having happened a short while ago
• Up-to-date; not old-fashioned or dated
• Particularly in geology, palaeontology, and astronomy: having occurred a relatively short time ago, but still potentially thousands or even millions of years ago

Synonyms

• hapax legomenon

Examples

• The cause has several hundred recent donors.
• I met three recent graduates at the conference.

Related words

• recently
• precentor
• recentness
• precentral
• recentralize
• recentism
• recentralization
• in recent times
• later; more recently