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yes⋅ter⋅day

  [yes-ter-dey, -dee]
Use Yesterday in a Sentence
–adverb
1. on the day preceding this day.
2. a short time ago: Yesterday your money went further.
–noun
3. the day preceding this day.
4. time in the immediate past.
–adjective
5. belonging or pertaining to the day before or to a time in the immediate past: yesterday morning.
Origin:
bef. 950; ME; OE geostran dæg. See yester-, day

Related forms:
yes⋅ter⋅day⋅ness, noun
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yes·ter·day   (yěs'tər-dā', -dē)   
n.  
  1. The day before the present day.
  2. also yesterdays Time in the past, especially the recent past.
adv.  
  1. On the day before the present day.
  2. A short while ago.

[Middle English, from Old English geostran dæg : geostran, yesterday; see yester- + dæg, day; see day.]
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Yesterday

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.

Yesterday

Yes"ter*day\, adv. On the day last past; on the day preceding to-day; as, the affair took place yesterday.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : Yesterday
Spanish: ayer,
German: gestern,
Japanese: 昨日
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yesterday 
O.E. geostran dæg, from dæg "day" + geostran "yesterday," from P.Gmc. *gestra- (cf. O.H.G. gestaron, Ger. gestern "yesterday," O.N. gær "tomorrow, yesterday," Goth. gistradagis "tomorrow"), originally "the other day" (reckoned from "today," either backward or forward), from PIE *ghes (cf. Skt. hyah, Avestan zyo, Pers. di, Gk. khthes, L. heri, O.Ir. indhe, Welsh doe "yesterday;" L. hesternus "of yesterday").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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yesterday

see not born yesterday.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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