yesteryear
- last year.
- the recent years; time not long past.
- during time not long past.
Origin of yesteryear
Examples from the Web for yesteryear
Contemporary Examples of yesteryear
But the question is, could a thawing of relations result in a return to the mobbed-up action of yesteryear?
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.
There were boyish suits from yesteryear with puffy white sleeves and fur collars worn by androgynous creatures with white faces.
I could use this opportunity to become as stylish and perhaps as divine as many of the heroines of yesteryear.
But here the design resembled something from track practice on a muddy English lawn from yesteryear, rather than high-tech Adidas.
Historical Examples of yesteryear
That was the word the sloppy copyist of yesteryear had wrongly transcribed.
G-r-r-r...!Roger Arcot
Yesteryear he was mad for the open air, and the games, and the joy of life.
The God of LoveJustin Huntly McCarthy
In that moment books and plays seemed like the snows of yesteryear.
May Iverson's CareerElizabeth Jordan
Oh, well, all flesh is grass, and there is no grass of yesteryear.
The Little Lady of the Big HouseJack London
Like the lovers of yesteryear, those of to-day were prisoners.
The Golden TriangleMaurice Leblanc
yesteryear
- last year or the past in general
- during last year or the past in general
Word Origin and History for yesteryear
coined 1870 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti from yester(day) + year to translate French antan (from Vulgar Latin *anteannum "the year before") in a refrain by François Villon: Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan? which Rossetti rendered "But where are the snows of yesteryear?"