Yesterday
WordNet
adverb
(1) On the day preceding today
"Yesterday the weather was beautiful"
(2) In the recent past; only a short time ago
"I was not born yesterday!"
noun
(3) The day immediately before today
"It was in yesterday's newspapers"
(4) The recent past
"Yesterday's solutions are not good enough"
"We shared many yesterdays"
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From < , compounded from
- Old English < < ;
- Old English < < .
Noun
- The day before today.
- Yesterday was rainy, but by this morning it had begun to snow.
- The (recent) past, often disparaging.
- Yesterday's technology.
- All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. [Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5]
Usage notes
- The term yesterdays is unusual and often poetic for the recent past, e.g. "all our yesterdays have come back to haunt us."
Adverb
yesterday
- On the day before today
- I started to watch the video yesterday, but could only finish the movie this evening.
Related terms
- yester
- yestereven
- yestern
- yesternight
- yesteryear
- yestreen