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Meaning of YESTERDAY

Pronunciation:  'yesturdee

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 Definition: 
  1. [n]  the day immediately before today; "it was in yesterday's newspapers"
  2. [n]  the recent past; "yesterday's solutions are not good enough"; "we shared many yesterdays"
  3. [adv]  on the day preceding today; "yesterday the weather was beautiful"
  4. [adv]  in the recent past; only a short time ago; "I was not born yesterday!"
 
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 See Also: day, mean solar day, past, past times, solar day, twenty-four hours, yesteryear, yore

 

 

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Yesterday
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Yes"ter*day\, n. [OE. [yogh]isterdai, AS. geostran
    d[ae]g, from geostran, geostra, giestran, gistran, gystran,
    yesterday (akin to D. gisteren, G. gestern, OHG. gestaron,
    Icel. g[ae]r yesterday, to-morrow, Goth. gistradagis
    to-morrow, L. heri yesterday, Gr. ?, Skr. hyas) + d[ae]g day.
    Cf. {Hestern}. ????.]
    1. The day last past; the day next before the present.
             All our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to
             dusty death.                          --Shak.
             We are but of yesterday, and know nothing. --Job
                                                   viii. 9.
    2. Fig.: A recent time; time not long past.
             The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when
             compared with the line of supreme pontiffs.
                                                   --Macaulay.
    
  2. \Yes"ter*day\, adv.
    On the day last past; on the day preceding to-day; as, the
    affair took place yesterday.
    
 

 

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