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yesterday
[ yes-ter-dey, -dee ]
adverb
- on the day preceding this day.
- a short time ago:
Yesterday your money went further.
noun
- the day preceding this day.
- time in the immediate past.
adjective
- belonging or pertaining to the day before or to a time in the immediate past:
yesterday morning.
yesterday
/ -ˌdeɪ; ˈjɛstədɪ /
noun
- the day immediately preceding today
- often plural the recent past
adverb
- on or during the day before today
- in the recent past
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Other Words From
- yester·day·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of yesterday1
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Idioms and Phrases
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Example Sentences
In a study published in the journal Nature yesterday, lab-grown clumps of human brain cells were transplanted into the brains of newborn rats.
It’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.
Justice League NYC met with the state attorney general and held a press conference yesterday at City Hall.
Mr Anderson Wheeler travelled from Tanzania where he works as a big game hunter to give evidence yesterday.
I 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.
To-day I'm more dead than alive, as we had a lesson from him yesterday that lasted four hours.
The 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 issues of the day before yesterday's battle seem certainly to have hung on a hair.
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