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.
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- yestermorning,
- yestern,
- yesternight
Origin of yesterday
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yesterday
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yesterday
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").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
yesterday
see not born yesterday.
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