1. (

• Holocene ,
• Holocene_epoch ,
• Recent ,
• Recent_epoch

) approximately the last 10,000 years ;

1. (

• recent

) new; "recent graduates"; "a recent addition to the house"; "recent buds on the apple trees" ;

2. (

• 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" ;