The noun recent has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. Holocene, Holocene epoch, Recent, Recent epoch -- (approximately the last 10,000 years)
Overview of adj recent
The adj recent has 3 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (36) recent -- (being new in a time not long past; "recent graduates"; "a recent addition to the house"; "recent buds on the apple trees")
2. (9) late, 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")
3. (4) recent -- (near to or not long before the present; "recent times"; "of recent origin")