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1. (adv.) yesterday
on the day before this day.
2. yesterday
in the or a previous era:
Yesterday your money went further.
3. (n.) yesterday
the day before this day.
4. yesterday
time in the immediate past.
5. (adj.) yesterday
belonging or pertaining to the day before or to an immediate past time:
yesterday morning.
Etymology: (bef. 950; ME; OE geostran dæg; cf. Go gistradagis tomorrow)
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| Definition of 'Yesterday' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) yesterday
the day immediately before today
"it was in yesterday's newspapers"
2. (adverb) yesterday
the recent past
"yesterday's solutions are not good enough"; "we shared many yesterdays"
3. (adverb) yesterday
on the day preceding today
"yesterday the weather was beautiful"
4. (adverb) yesterday
in the recent past; only a short time ago
"I was not born yesterday!"
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1. (adverb) yesterday
happening or done the day before today
It was my birthday yesterday.; I saw the movie yesterday afternoon.
2. (noun) yesterday
yesterday morning/afternoon/evening
the day before today
Yesterday was a good day
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| Definition of 'Yesterday' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adverb) Yesterday
on the day last past; on the day preceding to-day; as, the affair took place yesterday
2. (noun) Yesterday
the day last past; the day next before the present
3. (noun) Yesterday
fig.: A recent time; time not long past
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| Definitions of 'Yesterday' |
The Roycroft Dictionary |
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Yesterday
1. One evil less and one memory more.
2. A short-change artist, from whom we can never recover.
3. A period of time that has always existed, in contradistinction to a period of time called tomorrow that can never exist.
4. A mirror wherein if we look long enough we will see ourselves as others could never possibly see us.
5. The Eden of the sentimental. (Time is divided into yesterday, today and tomorrow, which are but three varieties of the same metaphysical tetter. In the beginning was the Infinite, and the Infinite begat Time, and Time begat Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.)
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Sense: (on) the day before today
Yesterday was a tiring day; He went home yesterday.
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 Afrikaans: gister |
 Arabic: أمْس، البارِحَه |
 Bulgarian: вчера |
 Brazilian: ontem |
 Czech: včera, včerejšek |
 German: gestern |
 Danish: i går |
 Greek: χθες |
 Spanish: ayer |
 Estonian: eile |
 Farsi: دیروز |
 Finnish: eilen |
 French: hier |
 Hebrew: אֶתְמוֹל |
 Hindi: कल (बीता हुआ) |
 Croatian: jučer |
 Hungarian: tegnap |
 Indonesian: kemarin |
 Icelandic: gærdagur |
 Italian: ieri |
 Japanese: 昨日 |
 Korean: 어제 |
 Lithuanian: vakar |
 Latvian: vakardiena; vakar |
 Malay: semalam |
 Dutch: gisteren |
 Norwegian: i går; gårsdagen |
 Polish: wczoraj |
 Persian: دیروز |
 Pashto: پرون |
 Portuguese: ontem |
 Romanian: ieri |
 Russian: вчера |
 Slovak: včera, včerajšok |
 Slovenian: včeraj |
 Serbian: juče |
 Swedish: i går |
 Thai: เมื่อวาน |
 Turkish: dün |
 Taiwanese: 昨天 |
 Ukrainian: вчорашній день; учора |
 Urdu: گزرا ہوا کل |
 Vietnamese: ngày hôm qua |
 Chinese: 昨天 |
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