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yesternoon
English
Noun
yesternoon (plural yesternoons)
- (archaic) Yesterday at noon.
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yesterday
English
Etymology
From Middle English yesterday, yisterday, ?esterdai, ?isterdai, from Old English ?iestrandæ?, ?ister dæ?, ?estor dæ?, ?eostran dæ?, equivalent to yester- +? day; see there for more. Compare Scots yisterday, yesterday (“yesterday”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????????????????? (gistradagis, “tomorrow”, adverb). Compare further Dutch gisteren, German gestern.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?j?st?de?/, /?j?st?d?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?j?st?de?/, /?j?st?di/
- (dated, Southern US folk speech) IPA(key): /?j?st?de?/, /?j?st?di/
Noun
yesterday (plural yesterdays)
- The day immediately before today; one day ago.
- (figuratively) The past, often in terms of being outdated.
- 1606 William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 5.5
- All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.
- 1606 William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 5.5
Usage notes
- The plural yesterdays is unusual and often poetic for the recent past, e.g. “all our yesterdays have come back to haunt us”.
- While pronunciations with /?j?-/ are now dialectal, they were formerly found in the standard language. For example, writer and orthoepist Thomas Sheridan prescribed such a pronunciation in his work.
Derived terms
- born yesterday
- yesterday is gone
Translations
Adverb
yesterday (not comparable)
- On the day before today.
- Synonym: (Ireland) the last day
- Antonym: tomorrow
- (informal) As soon as possible.
Related terms
Translations
See also
- hesternal
- today
- tomorrow night
- tonight
- last night
- nudiustertian
References
Middle English
Alternative forms
- ?usterday, ?urstendæi, ?isterday, yisterday, ?esterdai, yusterday
Etymology
From Old English ?iestrandæ?; equivalent to yester- +? day.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?j?st?rd?i/, /?jist?rd?i/, /?just?rd?i/
Adverb
yesterday
- On the preceding day
- At another preceding point in time; in the past
Noun
yesterday
- The preceding day; yesterday
- A preceding point in time; the past
Descendants
- English: yesterday
- Yola: yerstey
References
- “yester-dai, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-20.
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