recent

Adjective

• of the immediate past or just previous to the present time
  • a late development
    
  • their late quarrel
    
  • his recent trip to Africa
    
  • in recent months
    
  • a recent issue of the journal
    

• new
  • recent graduates
    
  • a recent addition to the house
    
  • recent buds on the apple trees
    

Noun

• approximately the last 10,000 years

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  late(a) , Holocene , Holocene epoch , Recent , Recent epoch