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yesterday

[ yes-ter-dey, -dee ]

adverb

  1. on the day preceding this day.
  2. a short time ago:

    Yesterday your money went further.



noun

  1. the day preceding this day.
  2. time in the immediate past.

adjective

  1. belonging or pertaining to the day before or to a time in the immediate past:

    yesterday morning.

yesterday

/ -ˌdeɪ; ˈjɛstədɪ /

noun

  1. the day immediately preceding today
  2. often plural the recent past
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adverb

  1. on or during the day before today
  2. in the recent past
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

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Word History and Origins

Origin of yesterday1

before 950; Middle English; Old English geostran dæg. See yester-, day
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Idioms and Phrases

see not born yesterday .
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Example Sentences

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"The president brings this up all the time. He brought it up yesterday. He brought it up before," Carney said at a Thursday campaign press conference.

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“Until yesterday’s State Bar press release, the court was unaware that AI had been used to draft any of the multiple-choice questions,” a spokesperson said in a statement.

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"The rest of the chicken from yesterday," replies Father Gabriel Romanelli.

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"Surely, lessons have to be learnt. If they weren't learnt before yesterday, they have to be learnt now."

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"It's terrifying. We were here yesterday and saw the sharks circling us."

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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