yesteryear

noun
/ˈjɛstəjɪə/UK/ˈjɛstərjɪər/US/ˈjestəjøː/

Etymology

From yester- + year.

  1. inherited from *yóh₁r̥ — “year, spring
  2. inherited from *jērą
  3. inherited from *jār
  4. inherited from ġēar
  5. inherited from yeer
  6. prefixed as yesteryear — “yester + year

Definitions

  1. Past years

    Past years; time gone by; yore.

    • To be old here, is to be respectable, and time-honored is the epithet most coveted. You see no sign of the doings of yesterday or yesteryear: the new is careful of obtruding itself, and comes into the world under matronage of the old.
    • It seems to me that it isn't these little acts and little connexions we make in our lives that matter so very much. They pass away, and where are they? Where…Where are the snows of yesteryear?
  2. Last year.

  3. In past years.

    • Was it yesteryear or centuries ago that the Orient Express thundered over that narrow, glistening channel and linked the Golden Horn to the Seine?
    • What lives there today provides a clue as to what lived here yesteryear.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for yesteryear. 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