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yesterday

noun
/ˈjɛstədeɪ/UK/ˈjɛstɹdeɪ/US/ˈjɪstɹdeɪ/

Etymology

From Middle English yesterday, yisterday, ȝesterdai, ȝisterdai, from Old English ġiestrandæġ, ġister dæġ, ġestor dæġ, ġeostran dæġ (“yesterday”), by surface analysis, yester- + day. Cognate with Scots yisterday, yesterday (“yesterday”), Saterland Frisian jässendeeg, järsendeges (“yesterday”, adverb), West Frisian justerdei (“yesterday”), Dutch gisterdag (“yesterday”), dialectal German gestertag (“yesterday”), Swedish gårdag (“yesterday”), Gothic 𐌲𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍂𐌰𐌳𐌰𐌲𐌹𐍃 (gistradagis, “tomorrow”, adverb). Compare further Dutch gisteren (“yesterday”), German gestern (“yesterday”).

  1. inherited from ġiestrandæġ
  2. inherited from yesterday

Definitions

  1. The day immediately before today

    The day immediately before today; one day ago.

    • Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow.
    • Yesterday was rainy, but by this morning it had begun to snow.
    • Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away …

  2. The past, often in terms of being outdated.

    • yesterday's technology
    • The worker of today is different from that of yesterday.
    • All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.

  3. On the day before today.

    • I started to watch the video yesterday, but could only finish it this evening.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. As soon as possible.

      • I want this done yesterday!
      • I need it yesterday!
      • "Europeans need to get to work yesterday and to focus," she says. "They have 5-10 years to stand on their own two feet in terms of conventional defence capabilities."

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Derived

born yesterday, day before yesterday, ereyesterday, remember like it was yesterday, yesterday but one, yesterday is gone, yesterday night, yesterday-today-and-tomorrow, yesterday-today-tomorrow

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for yesterday. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA