recently

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
15
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈɹiːsənt.li/
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/ˈɹiːsənt.li/ · /ˈɹi.sənt.li/ · [ˈɹi.sn̩ʔ.li] · [ˈɹɪi.sənt.li] · [ˈɹɪi.sn̩ʔ.li]

Definition of recently

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. In the recent past
    “My recently published book about the life stories of recently-arrived immigrants.”
    “The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.”
    “The Japanese Archipelago, fringing the eastern edge of Asia, has a rich avifauna, including what is probably the rarest bird in the world - the Toki or Japanese Crested Ibis, and one of the most recently discovered birds - the Okinawa Rail.”
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adv

  1. In the recent past
    “My recently published book about the life stories of recently-arrived immigrants.”
    “The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.”
    “The Japanese Archipelago, fringing the eastern edge of Asia, has a rich avifauna, including what is probably the rarest bird in the world - the Toki or Japanese Crested Ibis, and one of the most recently discovered birds - the Okinawa Rail.”
  2. In the recent past
    “I haven't been sleeping well recently.”
    “Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From recent + -ly.

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