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yes⋅ter⋅day

  [yes-ter-dey, -dee]
Use yester-day 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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Word Origin & History

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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