yesteryear
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Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
Noun[edit]
yesteryear (countable and uncountable, plural yesteryears)
- (poetic) Past years; time gone by; yore.
- 1928, Lawrence, D[avid] H[erbert], chapter 5, in Lady Chatterley's Lover:
- Where are the snows of yesteryear?
- (rare) Last year.
Synonyms[edit]
- (time gone by): foretime, yestertide; see also Thesaurus:the past
Translations[edit]
times gone by
last year — See also translations at last year
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