Definitions for: Yesterday


[n] the day immediately before today; "it was in yesterday's newspapers"
[n] the recent past; "yesterday's solutions are not good enough"; "we shared many yesterdays"
[adv] on the day preceding today; "yesterday the weather was beautiful"
[adv] in the recent past; only a short time ago; "I was not born yesterday!"



Webster (1913) Definition: Yes"ter*day, n. [OE. [yogh]isterdai, AS. geostran
d[ae]g, from geostran, geostra, giestran, gistran, gystran,
yesterday (akin to D. gisteren, G. gestern, OHG. gestaron,
Icel. g[ae]r yesterday, to-morrow, Goth. gistradagis
to-morrow, L. heri yesterday, Gr. ?, Skr. hyas) + d[ae]g 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. --Shak.

We are but of yesterday, and know nothing. --Job
viii. 9.

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.
--Macaulay.


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

See Also: day, mean solar day, past, past times, solar day, twenty-four hours, yesteryear, yore

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