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[ yes-ter-yeer, -yeer ] / ˈyɛs tərˈyɪər, -ˌyɪər / SEE SYNONYMS FOR yesteryear ON THESAURUS.COM
nounlast year. the recent years; time not long past. adverbduring time not long past. Origin of yesteryearyester- + year; apparently introduced by D.G. Rossetti (1870) to render Middle French antan (Villon) Words nearby yesteryearyestermorning, yestern, yesternight, yesternoon, yesterweek, yesteryear, yestreen, Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, yet, yeti, yett Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for yesteryearBut the question is, could a thawing of relations result in a return to the mobbed-up action of yesteryear? Will Hyman Roth Return to Havana With Normalized Relations?|John L. Smith|December 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST Or a horse and carriage, like the one driven a young man in a tweed suit and cap from yesteryear, as he gazed up at the stars. The Crazy Medieval Island of Sark|Liza Foreman|October 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST I could use this opportunity to become as stylish and perhaps as divine as many of the heroines of yesteryear. A Breast Cancer Alphabet: F Is For Fashion Accessories|Madhulika Sikka|February 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST But here the design resembled something from track practice on a muddy English lawn from yesteryear, rather than high-tech Adidas. Viktor & Rolf's Prep School|Liza Foreman|September 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Perhaps the inspration was elegant ladies from yesteryear, waiting for their pilots to come home? Salvatore Ferragamo's Military Hints|Liza Foreman|September 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST She had gone out of his life as a commonplace incident slips into the oblivion of yesteryear. 'Firebrand' Trevison|Charles Alden Seltzer They belong rather more to the sort of music that has no more relation with yesteryear than it has with this or next. Musical Portraits|Paul Rosenfeld Lower, and even Middle bars and restaurants were universally automated, and the waiter or waitress a thing of yesteryear. Mercenary|Dallas McCord Reynolds That was the word the sloppy copyist of yesteryear had wrongly transcribed. He writes better about Manet than about an amatory encounter of yesteryear. The Critical Game|John Albert Macy
British Dictionary definitions for yesteryear/ (ˈjɛstəˌjɪə) formal, or literary /
nounlast year or the past in general adverbduring last year or the past in general Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to yesteryearpast, eld |