yesteryear


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yes·ter·year

 (yĕs′tər-yîr′)
n.
1. The year before the present year.
2. Time past; yore.
yes′ter·year′ adv.
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yesteryear

(ˈjɛstəˌjɪə)
n
last year or the past in general
adv
during last year or the past in general
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yes•ter•year

(ˈyɛs tərˈyɪər, -ˌyɪər)

n.
1. last year.
2. the recent years; time not long past.
adv.
3. during the recent past.
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.yesteryear - the time that has elapsedyesteryear - the time that has elapsed; "forget the past"
past, past times
time - the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
yore - time long past
bygone, water under the bridge - past events to be put aside; "let bygones be bygones"
old - past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
history - the aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the school's history"
time immemorial, time out of mind - the distant past beyond memory
auld langsyne, good old days, langsyne, old times - past times remembered with nostalgia
yesterday - the recent past; "yesterday's solutions are not good enough"; "we shared many yesterdays"
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yesteryear

noun
A former period of time or of one's life:
past, yesterday, yore.
Idioms: bygone days, days gone by, the good old days, the old days.
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Translations

yesteryear

[ˈjestəˈjɪəʳ] ADV (poet) → antaño
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

yesteryear

n (poet) of yesteryear → vergangener Jahre (gen)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

yesteryear

[ˈjɛstəˌjɪəʳ] n (old) (liter) → il tempo andato
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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The twelve young dancers of Tharp!, as she has baptized her new ensemble, are just as contemporary and stylish as their predecessors of the 1970s, only they belong to the here and now, not to one's trunkful of memories of yesteryear.
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