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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

Recent en · ADJ

Etymology

As classifier for a geological epoch coinciding with human presence (“Recent era”) introduced by Charles Lyell in 1833.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, obsolete) Of the Holocene, particularly pre-21st century.

Recent en · PROPN

Etymology

As classifier for a geological epoch coinciding with human presence (“Recent era”) introduced by Charles Lyell in 1833.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) The Holocene.
    • He [Charles Lyell] ignored Quaternary, a term he never accepted. The Recent addressed the age “tenanted by man,” which at the time barely extended beyond the chronicles of the Bible. 2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN: