Yesterday
['jestədeɪ;-dɪ] or ['jɛstɚde]
Definition
(noun.) the day immediately before today; 'it was in yesterday's newspapers'.
(noun.) the recent past; 'yesterday's solutions are not good enough'; 'we shared many yesterdays'.
(adv.) on the day preceding today; 'yesterday the weather was beautiful'.
(adv.) in the recent past; only a short time ago; 'I was not born yesterday!'.
Typist: Shirley--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The day last past; the day next before the present.
(n.) Fig.: A recent time; time not long past.
(adv.) On the day last past; on the day preceding to-day; as, the affair took place yesterday.
Checker: Lorrie
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The infancy of youth the youth of manhood the entire past of age.
Checked by Aron
Examples
- Dating from three o'clock yesterday. Jane Austen. Emma.
- But the fust was put underneath the door, and this come by the post, day afore yesterday. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- But there has been yesterday and the night before and last night. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But what did you hear about her second attack of faintness yesterday evening? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- That you had given a hundred pounds yesterday was with him no reason why you should not give two hundred to-day. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Only yesterday, I opened my ROBINSON CRUSOE at that place. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I was a saying so, you see, to my young man yesterday when you came into the shop. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- And you found your way to this place yesterday? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I had a bright idea yesterday, and this is it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- That's very kind of him, considering the battering I gave him yesterday. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Two young ladies have been staying here, but they went away yesterday, in despair; and no wonder. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Mrs. Todd is right about your looking too particular, yesterday, all in white. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I did not like it yesterday. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He spoke of a book yesterday which he had, and which I wanted to see. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- My friends, says he, I remember a duty unfulfilled yesterday. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But nobody can recover his yesterdays no matter how much he abuses the clock, and no man can expunge the memory of railroads though all the stations and engines were dismantled. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Editor: Maynard