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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The day before the present day.
  2. n. Time in the past, especially the recent past.
  3. adv. On the day before the present day.
  4. adv. A short while ago.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. On the day preceding this day; on the day last past.
  2. n. The day last past; the day next before the present: often used figuratively for time not long gone by; time in the immediate past.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The day before today. 'Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow'. It can also understand as a day ago.
  2. n. The (recent) past, often disparaging.
  3. adv. On the day before today

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The day last past; the day next before the present.
  2. n. Fig.: A recent time; time not long past.
  3. adv. On the day last past; on the day preceding to-day.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adv. on the day preceding today
  2. n. the day immediately before today
  3. n. the recent past
  4. adv. in the recent past; only a short time ago

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English, from Old English geostran dæg, equivalent to yester- +‎ day; compounded from (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old English geostran dæg : geostran, yesterday; see yester- + dæg, day; see day. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (7)

Words with the same meaning

  1. pridian
  1. hesternal
  1. yestermorn
  1. yestereve
  1. yestereven
  1. yesternigh
  1. the last day

antonyms (1)

Words with the opposite meaning

  1. tomorrow

hypernyms (9)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. solar day
  1. 24-hour interval
  1. twenty-four hours
  1. mean solar day
  1. day
  1. twenty-four hour period
  1. yesteryear
  1. past
  1. past times

same context (16)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. to-day
  2. go
  3. morning
  1. right
  2. run
  3. meeting
  1. business
  2. move
  3. show
  1. read
  2. report
  3. make
  1. call
  2. cut
  3. team
  1. party

reverse dictionary (40)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. yestern
  2. born
  3. to come to hand
  4. break
  5. hestern
  6. yis
  7. night-old
  8. pridian
  1. yestreen
  2. yester-
  3. Holliday
  4. hesternal
  5. Hofmannsthal
  6. so-so
  7. throw
  8. might
  1. who
  2. apropos
  3. ax
  4. be
  5. cancel
  6. morph
  7. far
  8. very
  1. gain
  2. refer
  3. terminate
  4. to-day
  5. yester
  6. yestereve
  7. yestermorn
  8. yesternoon
  1. attack
  2. clear
  3. come
  4. expect
  5. favor
  6. open
  7. snow
  8. thunder

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  1. yestern

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  • jmjarmstrong JM knows it only happened 24 hours ago but it really feels like yesterday. Jun 19, 2011

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