recurrentPronunciation: /rɪˈkʌr(ə)nt/Translate recurrent | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of recurrent adjective 1occurring often or repeatedly:she had a recurrent dream about falling 2 Anatomy (of a nerve or blood vessel) turning back so as to reverse direction: the recurrent nerve leaves the hypocerebral ganglionDerivatives recurrently adverb Origin: late 16th century (in sense 2): from Latin recurrent- 'running back', from the verb recurrere (see recur)recurrent in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of recurrent in the US English dictionary
