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

For instance, you’re playing your first tee shot on Day 2 into what was yesterday’s 18th fairway toward yesterday’s 17th green.

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Immergut asked the lawyer for the federal government on Sunday, saying she saw the moves to send troops from California and Texas as a “direct contravention of the order that this court issued yesterday.”

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He spoke of Rangers as a project that could only be fixed in the medium to long term when all the supporters wanted to know was how things were going to improve… yesterday.

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“We lost one of the best yesterday… one of the best I’ve ever worked with,” Goggins wrote in his Instagram post.

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Russell, who crashed on Friday, added: "I had a difficult day yesterday for many reasons but it's good to come back and get a good result today. I knew there was potential in the car."

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