yesteryear

[ yes-ter-yeer, -yeer ]

/ ˈyɛs tərˈyɪər, -ˌyɪər /

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noun

last year.

the recent years; time not long past.

adverb

during time not long past.

Words nearby yesteryear

yestermorning, yestern, yesternight, yesternoon, yesterweek, yesteryear, yestreen, yet, yeti, yett, yetta

Origin of yesteryear

yester- + year; apparently introduced by D.G. Rossetti (1870) to render Middle French antan (Villon)

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Examples from the Web for yesteryear

But the question is, could a thawing of relations result in a return to the mobbed-up action of yesteryear?
Will Hyman Roth Return to Havana With Normalized Relations?|John L. Smith|December 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Or a horse and carriage, like the one driven a young man in a tweed suit and cap from yesteryear, as he gazed up at the stars.
The Crazy Medieval Island of Sark|Liza Foreman|October 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I could use this opportunity to become as stylish and perhaps as divine as many of the heroines of yesteryear.
A Breast Cancer Alphabet: F Is For Fashion Accessories|Madhulika Sikka|February 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But here the design resembled something from track practice on a muddy English lawn from yesteryear, rather than high-tech Adidas.
Viktor & Rolf's Prep School|Liza Foreman|September 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST

Perhaps the inspration was elegant ladies from yesteryear, waiting for their pilots to come home?
Salvatore Ferragamo's Military Hints|Liza Foreman|September 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
She had gone out of his life as a commonplace incident slips into the oblivion of yesteryear.
'Firebrand' Trevison|Charles Alden Seltzer
They belong rather more to the sort of music that has no more relation with yesteryear than it has with this or next.
Musical Portraits|Paul Rosenfeld
Lower, and even Middle bars and restaurants were universally automated, and the waiter or waitress a thing of yesteryear.
Mercenary|Dallas McCord Reynolds
That was the word the sloppy copyist of yesteryear had wrongly transcribed.
G-r-r-r...!|Roger Arcot
He writes better about Manet than about an amatory encounter of yesteryear.
The Critical Game|John Albert Macy

British Dictionary definitions for yesteryear

yesteryear

/ (ˈjɛstəˌjɪə) formal, or literary /

noun

last year or the past in general

adverb

during last year or the past in general

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yesteryear

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British Dictionary definitions for yesteryear

noun

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