yesterday
on the day preceding this day.
a short time ago: Yesterday your money went further.
the day preceding this day.
time in the immediate past.
belonging or pertaining to the day before or to a time in the immediate past: yesterday morning.
Origin of yesterday
1Other words from yesterday
- yes·ter·day·ness, noun
Words Nearby yesterday
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How to use yesterday in a sentence
In a study published in the journal Nature yesterday, lab-grown clumps of human brain cells were transplanted into the brains of newborn rats.
The Download: AI’s life-and-death decisions, and plant-based steak | Rhiannon Williams | October 13, 2022 | MIT Technology ReviewIt’s our duty to make sure that their future is better than their past, and that their tomorrows are better than their yesterdays.
NEW ORLEANS — John Boehner was reelected House Speaker yesterday by his Republican colleagues despite some dissenting members.
I spent time yesterday listening to the music you made, and looking at the art you created.
Dear Leelah, We Will Fight On For You: A Letter to a Dead Trans Teen | Parker Molloy | January 1, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTJustice League NYC met with the state attorney general and held a press conference yesterday at City Hall.
Eric Garner Protesters Have a Direct Line to City Hall | Jacob Siegel | December 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Mr Anderson Wheeler travelled from Tanzania where he works as a big game hunter to give evidence yesterday.
How A British Aristocrat Used Big Game Hunter’s Sperm To Get Pregnant Without His Permission | Tom Sykes | December 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI played yesterday at lunchtime,” he says, “and after work, and then again this morning, and then today at lunchtime.
He had got his ticket of admission to the Casino, after arriving yesterday evening; but the Rooms had not pleased him then.
Rosemary in Search of a Father | C. N. WilliamsonTo-day I'm more dead than alive, as we had a lesson from him yesterday that lasted four hours.
Music-Study in Germany | Amy FayThe fleet of the enemy left the place where they last halted, and came in sight day before yesterday in the morning.
Why have I never heard until the day before yesterday of your suffering yourself to be cooped up in jail?
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2) | Charles DickensThe issues of the day before yesterday's battle seem certainly to have hung on a hair.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian Hamilton
British Dictionary definitions for yesterday
/ (ˈjɛstədɪ, -ˌdeɪ) /
the day immediately preceding today
(often plural) the recent past
on or during the day before today
in the recent past
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Other Idioms and Phrases with yesterday
see not born yesterday.
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