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yesteryear

English

Alternative forms

  • yester-year

Etymology

Compound of yester- +? year. Coined by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in 1869 in his translation "Ballad Of Dead Ladies", to translate Middle French antan (“last year”) (in Ballad 1 of François Villon's Testament).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?j?st?j??/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?j?st?rj??r/

Noun

yesteryear (countable and uncountable, plural yesteryears)

  1. (poetic) Past years; time gone by; yore.
  2. (rare) Last year.

Synonyms

  • (time gone by): foretime, yestertide; see also Thesaurus:the past

Translations

See also

  • yesterday
  • bygone

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yesternight

English

Etymology

From Middle English yesternyght, yisternight, from Old English ?iestranniht (“yesternight”), equivalent to yester- +? night.

Adverb

yesternight (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Last night.

Synonyms

  • see list in yestereve

Related terms

  • yesterday
  • yesteryear

Noun

yesternight (plural yesternights)

  1. (archaic) A preceding night.

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