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yes⋅ter

  [yes-ter]
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–adjective Archaic.
of or pertaining to yesterday.
Also, yestern.

Origin:
1570–80; back formation from yesterday, etc.

yester-

 
a combining form, now unproductive, occurring in words that denote an extent of time one period prior to the present period, the nature of the period being specified by the second element of the compound: yesterweek.
Origin:
ME; OE geostran, giestron; c. D gisteren, G gestern; akin to L hesternus of yesterday
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Yester

Yes"ter\, a. [See Yesterday.] Last; last past; next before; of or pertaining to yesterday.

[An enemy] whom yester sun beheld Mustering her charms. --Dryden.

Note: This word is now seldom used except in a few compounds; as, yesterday, yesternight, etc.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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