Yesterday

[Yes·ter*day]

On the day last past; on the day preceding to-day; as, the affair took place yesterday.

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The day last past; the day next before the present.

Noun
the day immediately before today; "it was in yesterday''s newspapers"

Noun
the recent past; "yesterday''s solutions are not good enough"; "we shared many yesterdays"

Adverb
on the day preceding today; "yesterday the weather was beautiful"

Adverb
in the recent past; only a short time ago; "I was not born yesterday!"


n.
The day last past; the day next before the present.

n.
Fig.: A recent time; time not long past.

adv.
On the day last past; on the day preceding to-day; as, the affair took place yesterday.


Yesterday

Yes"ter*day , n. [OE. 'f4isterdai, AS. geostran d'91g, from geostran, geostra, giestran, gistran, gystran, yesterday (akin to D. gisteren, G. gestern, OHG. gestaron, Icel. g'91r yesterday, to-morrow, Goth. gistradagis to-morrow, L. heri yesterday, Gr. , Skr. hyas) + d'91g day. Cf. Hestern. .] 1. The day last past; the day next before the present.
All our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.
We are but of yesterday, and know nothing.
2. Fig.: A recent time; time not long past.
The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of supreme pontiffs.

Yesterday

Yes"ter*day, adv. On the day last past; on the day preceding to-day; as, the affair took place yesterday.

The day last past; the day next before the present.

On the day last past; on the day preceding to-day; as, the affair took place yesterday.

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Usage Examples

I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.

I was informed yesterday that there's a Twitter account for my laugh. Very hard to get used to things like that. Pretty amazing.

It was a great mantel to be able to take on really, an amazing legacy. And you know to finally see it, because I just saw the final product yesterday as well, is really amazing to be part of something like this.

Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.

And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

I watch too much cable, I admit. Day after day it gets frustrating. Yesterday I watched as someone called legislation to prevent teacher layoffs a bailout - but I know that's not a view held by many, nor were the views I was frustrated about.

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