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View synonyms for yesteryear

yesteryear

[ yes-ter-yeer, -yeer ]

noun

  1. last year.
  2. the recent years; time not long past.


adverb

  1. during time not long past.

yesteryear

/ ˈjɛstəˌjɪə /

noun

  1. last year or the past in general


adverb

  1. during last year or the past in general

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Word History and Origins

Origin of yesteryear1

yester- + year; apparently introduced by D.G. Rossetti (1870) to render Middle French antan (Villon)

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Example Sentences

But the question is, could a thawing of relations result in a return to the mobbed-up action of yesteryear?

Or a horse and carriage, like the one driven a young man in a tweed suit and cap from yesteryear, as he gazed up at the stars.

There were boyish suits from yesteryear with puffy white sleeves and fur collars worn by androgynous creatures with white faces.

I could use this opportunity to become as stylish and perhaps as divine as many of the heroines of yesteryear.

But here the design resembled something from track practice on a muddy English lawn from yesteryear, rather than high-tech Adidas.

Forgotten were the nine cubs of the year before, and the quartettes and sextettes of many a yesteryear.

They belong rather more to the sort of music that has no more relation with yesteryear than it has with this or next.

The joke of yesteryear already shows frays upon its sleeves.

In that moment books and plays seemed like the snows of yesteryear.

Oh, well, all flesh is grass, and there is no grass of yesteryear.

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