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.]
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
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]
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
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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Noun | 1. | 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" | |
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
nounA 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]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] 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
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 adv → hier après-midiyesterday evening adv → hier soiryesterday morning adv → hier matin
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 adv → hier après-midiyesterday evening adv → hier soiryesterday morning adv → hier matin
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
yesterday
n → Gestern nt; the fashions of yesterday → die Mode von gestern; all our yesterdays → unsere ganze Vergangenheit
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. adv → ieri
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
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. n → ieri 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 ayerEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.