yesteryear

See also: yester-year

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): /ˈjɛstəjɪə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈjɛstərjɪər/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

yesteryear (countable and uncountable, plural yesteryears)

1. (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?

2. (rare) Last year.

Synonyms

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

Translations

times gone by

• Catalan: antany
• Dutch: weleer (nl) n, voorbije (nl) n, verleden (nl) n
• Finnish: menneet vuodet
• French: jadis (fr), antan (fr)
• German: einst (de)
• Greek: κάποτε (el) n (kápote), παλιά (el) (paliá)

• Ido: olim (io)
• Italian: passato (it) m
• Maori: raurangi
• Portuguese outrora (pt)
• Spanish: antaño (es)
• Ukrainian: мину́вшина (uk) (mynúvšyna), мину́ле n (mynúle)
• Vietnamese: xưa (vi), thời xưa (vi), ngày xưa (vi)
• Welsh: llynedd f

last year — See also translations at last year

• Armenian: հերու (hy) (heru)

  Old Armenian: հերու (heru)

• Basque: iaz (eu)
• Bulgarian: лани (bg) (lani)
• Catalan: antany m
• Czech: loni (cs)
• Danish: i fjor
• Dutch: gisterjaar n
• Faroese: í fjør
• Finnish: mennyt vuosi
• French: année passée, an passé, année dernière, an dernier
• German: Vorjahr (de) n
• Greek: πέρυσι (el) n (pérysi)

  Ancient: πέρυσι (pérusi)

• Hebrew: אשתקד‎ (he) (eshtakád)
• Hungarian: tavaly (hu)
• Icelandic: í fyrra
• Irish: anuraidh
• Italian: anno (it) scorso (it)
• Japanese: 去年 (ja) (Kyonen)

• Korean: 작년 (ko) (jangnyeon)
• Latvian: pērn, pērngad
• Low German:

  German Low German: Vörjohr n

• Maori: tauhouanga, tauhounga
• Middle High German: vert
• Norwegian: i fjor
• Old Norse: fjǫrð
• Old Swedish: fiordh
• Persian: دیسال‎ (disâl)
• Portuguese: ano passado m, antanho (pt) m
• Russian: в прошлом году (v prošlom godu)
• Sanskrit: परुत् (sa) (parut)
• Serbo-Croatian: lani (sh), лани
• Slovak: vlani
• Slovene: láni (sl)
• Spanish: antaño (es) m, año pasado m
• Swedish: i fjol (sv), i fjor (sv)
• Turkish: bıldır (tr)
• Ukrainian: торі́к (uk) (torík), мину́лого ро́ку (mynúloho róku)
• Welsh: llynedd f

See also

• yesterday
• bygone