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noun
- The day before today.
- Yesterday was rainy, but by this morning it had begun to snow.
- The (recent) past, often disparaging.
- Yesterday's technology.
- All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5
adverb
- On the day before today
- I started to watch the video , but could only finish the movie this evening.
Etymology: From Middle English < Old English geostran díg, compounded from geostran (yesterday) < Proto-Germanic - gestra- < Proto-Indo-European
- ghes; + Middle English day < Old English díg < Proto-Germanic
- dagaz < Proto-Indo-European
- dhegh- (to burn).
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