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yesterday
[ yes-ter-dey, -dee ]
adverb
- on the day preceding this day.
- a short time ago:
Yesterday your money went further.
noun
- the day preceding this day.
- time in the immediate past.
adjective
- belonging or pertaining to the day before or to a time in the immediate past:
yesterday morning.
yesterday
/ -ˌdeɪ; ˈjɛstədɪ /
noun
- the day immediately preceding today
- often plural the recent past
adverb
- on or during the day before today
- in the recent past
Other Word Forms
- t·岹·Ա noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of yesterday1
Idioms and Phrases
see not born yesterday .Example Sentences
"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.
“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.
"The rest of the chicken from yesterday," replies Father Gabriel Romanelli.
"Surely, lessons have to be learnt. If they weren't learnt before yesterday, they have to be learnt now."
"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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