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yesterday
[ yes-ter-dey, -dee ]
adverb
- on the day preceding this day.
- a short time ago:
Yesterday your money went further.
noun
- the day preceding this day.
- time in the immediate past.
adjective
- belonging or pertaining to the day before or to a time in the immediate past:
yesterday morning.
yesterday
/ -ˌdeɪ; ˈjɛstədɪ /
noun
- the day immediately preceding today
- often plural the recent past
adverb
- on or during the day before today
- in the recent past
Other Words From
- yester·day·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of yesterday1
Idioms and Phrases
see not born yesterday .Example Sentences
"He told me, 'there was an execution yesterday - it was a person in the next cell'," she recalls.
"We are asking anyone who knew her or who may have insights into her feelings leading up to yesterday to please contact the Madison-area Crime Stoppers."
As I mentioned yesterday, I have a 2:1 block in my heart.
"But our wounds are still fresh now as if it happened yesterday."
Lennon riposte was How Do You Sleep? on the Imagine album, with its barb "The only thing you done was yesterday / And since you've gone you're just another day."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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