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yesterday
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
Translations:
Dutch: gisteren
(nl)
French: hier
(fr)
German: gestern
(de)
Spanish: ayer
(es)
adverb
On the day before today
I started to watch the video , but could only finish the movie this evening.
Translations:
Dutch: gisteren
(nl)
French: hier
(fr)
German: gestern
(de)
Italian: ieri
(it)
m
Spanish: ayer
(es)
m
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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