yesteryear
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tərˈyɪər, -ˌyɪər noun
1.
last year.
2.
the recent years; time not long past.
adverb
3.
during time not long past.
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| —n | |
| 1. | last year or the past in general |
| —adv | |
| 2. | during last year or the past in general |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
yesteryear
coined 1870 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti from yester(day) + year to translate Fr. antan (from V.L. *anteannum "the year before") in a refrain by François Villon: Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan? which Rossetti rendered "But where are the snows of yesteryear?"
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Example sentences
The suite of tools available to do this would amaze the ocean explorers of yesteryear.
The system almost guarantees that fresh capital goes to the losers of yesteryear.
Many farmers, responding to consumer demand, are delving into the tomato's preindustrial past to find the flavors of yesteryear.
Snapshots were a kind of social media: they were designed to be shared in the once-ubiquitous albums of yesteryear.
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