yesterday

[yes-ter-dey, -dee]

adverb

1. on the day preceding this day.

2. a short time ago.

   Yesterday your money went further.

noun

1. the day preceding this day.

2. time in the immediate past.

adjective

1. belonging or pertaining to the day before or to a time in the immediate past.

   yesterday morning.

yesterday

/ -ˌdeɪ, ˈjɛstədɪ /

noun

1. the day immediately preceding today

2. (often plural) the recent past

adverb

1. on or during the day before today

2. in the recent past

Other Word Forms

• yesterdayness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of yesterday¹

before 950; Middle English; Old English geostran dæg. See yester-, day

Idioms and Phrases

see not born yesterday.

Example Sentences

"Micky and Djed came into my office yesterday and just said they wanted to say sorry for the situation," said Frank.

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"Eli Katoa was taken to hospital after suffering seizure activity on the bench during the second half of yesterday's Pacific Championships match between Tonga and New Zealand," his club Melbourne Storm said in a statement.

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“In fact, yesterday morning I didn’t necessarily think Yama could either.”

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"Just yesterday, twin children around 10 years old arrived with a woman who said their parents had died on the way," the volunteer aid worker says.

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However, he added: "It would clearly have been better if you and your husband had conducted a full trawl through all email correspondence with the estate agency before writing to me yesterday."

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