yesteryear
See also: yester-year
English
Alternative forms
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
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈjɛstəjɪə/
Audio (US): (file)
Noun
yesteryear (countable and uncountable, plural yesteryears)
- (poetic) Past years; time gone by; yore.
- 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 5, in Lady Chatterley's Lover:
- Where are the snows of yesteryear?
- (rare) Last year.
Synonyms
- (time gone by): foretime, yestertide; see also Thesaurus:the past
Translations
times gone by
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last year
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