yesterday [yes -ter-dey, -dee]
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See more synonyms for yesterday on Thesaurus.com on the day preceding this day. a short time ago: Yesterday your money went further. Show More
the day preceding this day. time in the immediate past. Show More
belonging or pertaining to the day before or to a time in the immediate past: yesterday morning. Show More
Origin of yesterday before 950; Middle English; Old English geostran dæg. See
yester- ,
day Related forms yes·ter·day·ness , noun Dictionary.com Unabridged
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Examples from the Web for yesterday Contemporary Examples of yesterday NEW ORLEANS — John Boehner was reelected House Speaker yesterday by his Republican colleagues despite some dissenting members.
I spent time yesterday listening to the music you made, and looking at the art you created.
Justice League NYC met with the state attorney general and held a press conference yesterday at City Hall.
Mr Anderson Wheeler travelled from Tanzania where he works as a big game hunter to give evidence yesterday .
I played yesterday at lunchtime,” he says, “and after work, and then again this morning, and then today at lunchtime.
Historical Examples of yesterday We met the son and the old man at one of their mines yesterday .
Fifty-two runs since yesterday at this time, and the bell still ringing.
It won't be any safer to insult me now than it was yesterday .
The appearance of the country ahead is better than it looked yesterday .
After this we left them and continued on to the spring found yesterday , and camped.
British Dictionary definitions for yesterday the day immediately preceding today (often plural) the recent past Show More
on or during the day before today in the recent past Show More
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Word Origin and History for yesterday n. Old English geostran dæg , from dæg "day" (see day ) + geostran "yesterday," from Proto-Germanic *gestra- (cf. Old High German gestaron , German gestern "yesterday," Old Norse gær "tomorrow, yesterday," Gothic gistradagis "tomorrow"), originally "the other day" (reckoned from "today," either backward or forward), from PIE *ghes (cf. Sanskrit hyah , Avestan zyo , Persian di , Greek khthes , Latin heri , Old Irish indhe , Welsh doe "yesterday;" Latin hesternus "of yesterday").
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