yesterday
on the day preceding this day.
a short time ago: Yesterday your money went further.
the day preceding this day.
time in the immediate past.
belonging or pertaining to the day before or to a time in the immediate past: yesterday morning.
Origin of yesterday
1Other words from yesterday
- yes·ter·day·ness, noun
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How to use yesterday in a sentence
There was nothing to live for, neither cheerful yesterdays nor confident to-morrows.
The Master-Knot of Human Fate | Ellis MeredithYouth the divine, half way down the stair of misty yesterdays, turned upon his heel and came back to him.
Audrey | Mary JohnstonNothing worried her very long and she had the philosophy of a young child, taking no thought of the yesterdays or of the morrows.
The Carter Girls' Week-End Camp | Nell SpeedHer face shone, and all the weariness of the days work, and all the toilsome yesterdays, disappeared from her brow.
Aunt Crete's Emancipation | Grace Livingston HillFive seconds after she went to sleep, Sue was reliving one of her yesterdays.
The Duck-footed Hound | James Arthur Kjelgaard
British Dictionary definitions for yesterday
/ (ˈjɛstədɪ, -ˌdeɪ) /
the day immediately preceding today
(often plural) the recent past
on or during the day before today
in the recent past
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with yesterday
see not born yesterday.
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