yesterday

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Usage notes 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 Adverb 1.4.1 Synonyms 1.4.2 Antonyms 1.4.3 Related terms 1.4.4 Translations 1.5 See also

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Middle English < Old English geostran dæg, compounded from

• Old English geostran (“‘yesterday’”) < Proto-Germanic *gestra- < Proto-Indo-European *gʰes;
• Old English dæg < Proto-Germanic *dagaz < Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʰ- (“‘to burn’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈjestədeɪ/
• (US) IPA: /ˈjestərdeɪ/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}
• Rhymes: -eɪ

[edit] Noun

yesterday (plural yesterdays)

1. The day before today.

   Yesterday was rainy, but by this morning it had begun to snow.

2. The (recent) past, often disparaging.

   Yesterday's technology.

   All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. [Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5]

[edit] Usage notes

• The term yesterdays is unusual and often poetic for the recent past, e.g. "all our yesterdays have come back to haunt us."

[edit] Derived terms

• born yesterday

[edit] Translations

[edit] Adverb

yesterday

1. On the day before today

   I started to watch the video yesterday, but could only finish the movie this evening.

[edit] Synonyms

• the last day (Ireland)

[edit] Antonyms

• tomorrow

[edit] Related terms

• yester
• yestereven
• yestern
• yesternight
• yesteryear
• yestreen

[edit] Translations

[edit] See also

• today
• tomorrow night
• tonight
• last night
• nudiustertian