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

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.

From BBC

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

From Los Angeles Times

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."

From BBC

"That hatred is felt through the whole of the UK and through what happened here yesterday. I knew it would happen."

From BBC

"My five-year-old asked me yesterday, when we had four helicopters above our heads all day, he said 'is this what happens every Yom Kippur?' I said no, this isn't normal," she said.

From BBC