yesterday


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yes·ter·day

 (yĕs′tər-dā′, -dē)
n.
1. The day before the present day.
2. also yesterdays Time in the past, especially the recent past.
adv.
1. On the day before the present day.
2. A short while ago.

[Middle English, from Old English geostran dæg : geostran, yesterday; see yester- + dæg, day; see day.]
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yesterday

(ˈjɛstədɪ; -ˌdeɪ)
n
1. the day immediately preceding today
2. (often plural) the recent past
adv
3. on or during the day before today
4. in the recent past
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yes•ter•day

(ˈyɛs tərˌdeɪ, -di)

adv.
1. on the day before this day.
2. in the or a previous era: Yesterday your money went further.
n.
3. the day before this day.
4. time in the immediate past.
adj.
5. belonging or pertaining to the day before or to an immediate past time: yesterday morning.
[before 950; Middle English; Old English geostran dæg; compare Gothic gistradagis tomorrow]
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yesterday

  • hestern, hesternal - Hestern or hesternal means "pertaining to yesterday."
  • nudiustertian - Pertaining to the day before yesterday.
  • pridian - "Of or relating to a previous day or yesterday; former."
  • yesterday - The yester of yesterday and yesteryear was a word on its own, meaning "yesterday," but by Old English it had become a collocation with "day."
Farlex Trivia Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.

yesterday

Yesterday means the day before today.

It was hot yesterday.
We spent yesterday in Glasgow.

You refer to the morning and afternoon of the day before today as yesterday morning and yesterday afternoon.

Yesterday morning I went for a run.
Heavy rain fell here yesterday afternoon.

You can also talk about yesterday evening, but it is more common to refer to the previous evening as last night.

I met your husband last night.
I've been thinking about what you said last night.

You can also use last night to refer to the previous night.

We left our bedroom window open last night.

Be Careful!
Don't talk about 'yesterday night'.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.yesterday - the day immediately before today; "it was in yesterday's newspapers"
24-hour interval, day, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours - time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis; "two days later they left"; "they put on two performances every day"; "there are 30,000 passengers per day"
2.yesterday - the recent past; "yesterday's solutions are not good enough"; "we shared many yesterdays"
past, past times, yesteryear - the time that has elapsed; "forget the past"
Adv.1.yesterday - on the day preceding today; "yesterday the weather was beautiful"
2.yesterday - in the recent past; only a short time ago; "I was not born yesterday!"
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yesterday

noun
A former period of time or of one's life:
Idioms: bygone days, days gone by, the good old days, the old days.
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Translations
أمسأَمْسأمْس، البارِحَه
вчера
včeravčerejšek
i går
hieraŭ
eileneilineneilispäivä
jučer
tegnap
kemarin
gærdagurí gær
昨日
어제
hereherihesternus
vakar
vakarvakardiena
ieri
včeravčerajšok
včerajpredvčerajšnjim
igårgårdagi går
เมื่อวานนี้
ngày hôm qua

yesterday

[ˈjestədeɪ]
A. ADVayer
yesterday afternoonayer por la tarde
yesterday morning/eveningayer por la mañana/tarde
all day yesterdaytodo el día de ayer
late yesterdayayer a última hora
I wasn't born yesterdayno me chupo el dedo
B. Nayer m
the day before yesterdayanteayer
yesterday was Mondayayer era lunes
all our yesterdaystodos nuestros ayeres
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

yesterday

[ˈjɛstərdeɪ ˈjɛstərdi]
advhier
She left yesterday → Elle est partie hier.
all day yesterday → toute la journée d'hier
n
(= day before) → hier m
yesterday's paper → le journal d'hier
yesterday's meeting → la réunion d'hier
the day before yesterday → avant-hier
(= the past) → hier
The worker of today is different from the worker of yesterday → Le travailleur d'aujourd'hui n'est plus le même que celui d'hier., Le travailleur d'aujourd'hui n'est plus le même que celui d'autrefois.yesterday afternoon advhier après-midiyesterday evening advhier soiryesterday morning advhier matin
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

yesterday

nGestern nt; the fashions of yesterdaydie Mode von gestern; all our yesterdaysunsere ganze Vergangenheit
adv (lit, fig)gestern; yesterday morning/afternoon/eveninggestern Morgen/Nachmittag/Abend; he was at home all (day) yesterdayer war gestern den ganzen Tag zu Hause; the day before yesterdayvorgestern; a week ago yesterdaygestern vor einer Woche ? born
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

yesterday

[ˈjɛstəˌdeɪ]
1. advieri
yesterday morning/evening → ieri mattina/sera
the day before yesterday → l'altro ieri
a week yesterday (past) → una settimana fa, ieri
late yesterday → ieri in serata
it rained all (day) yesterday → ieri è piovuto tutto il giorno
the great men of yesterday → i grandi uomini del passato
2. nieri m inv
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

yesterday

(ˈjestədi) noun, adverb
(on) the day before today. Yesterday was a tiring day; He went home yesterday.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

yesterday

أَمْس včera i går gestern χτες ayer eilen hier jučer ieri 昨日 어제 gisteren i går wczoraj ontem вчера igår เมื่อวานนี้ dün ngày hôm qua 昨天
Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

yesterday

adv. ayer.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
Collins Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

yesterday

adv ayer
English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
References in classic literature ?
She has not been very well since you were here yesterday, but she is better this morning, and I think it is very likely that she will be cheered by seeing you again."
How I thank you for our walk to the Islands yesterday, Makar Alexievitch!
If I could wake back again into the time before yesterday, I would choose to be true to my calmer affections, and live without the joy of love."
"It is only to-day that I have been able to realise a little how distressed you must have been here yesterday, waiting for me to come back."
Rose and Violet introduced me to it yesterday; and to the stables, and to the kennel, and to the gardener, who was picking fruit to send to market, and from whom they begged hard a bunch of hot-house grapes; but he said that Sir Pitt had numbered every "Man Jack" of them, and it would be as much as his place was worth to give any away.
I beg your pardon for what I said yesterday. I was not myself yesterday.
"You will tell him that you want to see the waste-paper of yesterday. You will say that an important telegram has miscarried and that you are looking for it.
That, if Joe knew it, I never afterwards could see him glance, however casually, at yesterday's meat or pudding when it came on to-day's table, without thinking that he was debating whether I had been in the pantry.
An anchor of yesterday (because nowadays there are contrivances like mushrooms and things like claws, of no particular expression or shape - just hooks) - an anchor of yesterday is in its way a most efficient instrument.
The note, at any rate, that I put on the table yesterday," I pursued, "will have given him so scant an advantage-- for it contained only the bare demand for an interview-- that he is already much ashamed of having gone so far for so little, and that what he had on his mind last evening was precisely the need of confession." I seemed to myself, for the instant, to have mastered it, to see it all.
"SIR -- I beg to inform you that I was yesterday called into a neighbor's in Vauxhall Walk to attend a young lady who had been suddenly taken ill.
We had a sailor-man over, the morning before yesterday, to complain of his messages having been picked up.