Recent

a.	1.	Of late origin, existence, or occurrence; lately come; not of remote date, antiquated style, or the like; not already known, familiar, worn out, trite, etc.; fresh; novel; new; modern; as, recent news. The ancients were of opinion, that a considerable portion of that country [Egypt] was recent, and formed out of the mud discharged into the neighboring sea by the Nile. - Woodward.
	2.	(Geol.) Of or pertaining to the present or existing epoch; as, recent shells.

Adj.	1.	recent - being new in a time not long past; "recent graduates"; "a recent addition to the house"; "recent buds on the apple trees"
	2.	recent - 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" Synonyms: late
	3.	recent - near to or not long before the present; "recent times"; "of recent origin"

ancient, brand-new, current, early, erstwhile, fore, former, immemorial, just out, later, latest, latter, modernistic, neoteric, new-fashioned, newly come, of yesterday, olden, once, onetime, past, prehistoric, previous, primeval, primitive, prior, quondam, sometime, then