[adj] near to or not long before the present; "recent times"; "of recent origin"
[adj] being new in a time not long past; "recent graduates"; "a recent addition to the house"; "recent buds on the apple trees"
[adj] 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"