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yesterday

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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishyesterday,yisterday,ȝesterdai,ȝisterdai, fromOld Englishġiestrandæġ,ġister dæġ,ġestor dæġ,ġeostran dæġ(“yesterday”), bysurface analysis,yester- +‎day. Cognate withScotsyisterday,yesterday(“yesterday”),Saterland Frisianjässendeeg,järsendeges(“yesterday”,adverb),West Frisianjusterdei(“yesterday”),Dutchgisterdag(“yesterday”), dialectalGermangestertag(“yesterday”),Swedishgårdag(“yesterday”),Gothic𐌲𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍂𐌰𐌳𐌰𐌲𐌹𐍃(gistradagis,“tomorrow”,adverb). Compare furtherDutchgisteren(“yesterday”),Germangestern(“yesterday”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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yesterday (pluralyesterdays)

  1. Theday immediately beforetoday; one day ago.
    Today is the child ofyesterday and the parent of tomorrow.
    Yesterday was rainy, but by this morning it had begun to snow.
    • 1899,Hughes Mearns,Antigonish:
      Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away …
  2. (figuratively) Thepast, often in terms of beingoutdated.
    yesterday's technology
    The worker of today is different from that ofyesterday.
    • c.1606 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act V, scene v]:
      All ouryesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.
    • 2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, inThe Economist, volume407, number8841, page76:
      Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.

Usage notes

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  • The pluralyesterdays is unusual and often poetic for the recent past, e.g. “all our yesterdays have come back to haunt us”.
  • While pronunciations with/ˈjɪ-/ are now dialectal, they were formerly found in the standard language. For example, writer andorthoepistThomas Sheridan prescribed such a pronunciation in his work.[2]

Derived terms

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Translations

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day before today
the recent past

Adverb

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yesterday (notcomparable)

  1. On theday beforetoday.
    Synonym:(Ireland)the last day
    Antonym:tomorrow
    I started to watch the videoyesterday, but could only finish it this evening.
  2. (informal) As soon aspossible.
    I want this doneyesterday!
    I need ityesterday!

Related terms

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Translations

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on the day before today
as soon as possible

See also

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References

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  1. ^Kurath, Hans;McDavid, Raven I., Jr. (1961),The pronunciation of English in the Atlantic States: based upon the collections of the linguistic atlas of the Eastern United States‎[1],Ann Arbor:University of Michigan Press,→ISBN,→OCLC,§ 5.2,pages134-135.
  2. ^Thomas Sheridan (1790),A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Both with Regard to Sound and Meaning‎[2], volume 2, C. Dilly

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromOld Englishġiestrandæġ; equivalent toyester- +‎day.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈjɛstərdæi/,/ˈjistərdæi/,/ˈjustərdæi/

Adverb

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yesterday

  1. On the preceding day
  2. At another preceding point in time; in the past

Noun

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yesterday

  1. The preceding day;yesterday
  2. A preceding point in time; the past

Descendants

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