 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
yesterday
noun
1: the day immediately before today; "it was in yesterday's
newspapers"
2: the recent past; "yesterday's solutions are not good
enough"; "we shared many yesterdays"
adverb
1: on the day preceding today; "yesterday the weather was
beautiful"
2: in the recent past; only a short time ago; "I was not born
yesterday!"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Yesterday \Yes"ter*day\, adverb
On the day last past; on the day preceding to-day; as, the
affair took place yesterday.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Yesterday \Yes"ter*day\, noun [OE. [yogh]isterdai, AS. geostran
d[ae]g, from geostran, geostra, giestran, gistran, gystran,
yesterday (akin to D. gisteren, G. gestern, OHG. gestaron,
Icel. g[ae]r yesterday, to-morrow, Goth. gistradagis
to-morrow, L. heri yesterday, Gr. ?, Skr. hyas) + d[ae]g day.
Cf. {Hestern}. ????.]
1. The day last past; the day next before the present.
All our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. --Shak.
We are but of yesterday, and know nothing. --Job
viii. 9.
2. Fig.: A recent time; time not long past.
The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when
compared with the line of supreme pontiffs.
--Macaulay.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
39 Moby Thesaurus words for "yesterday":
aforetime, before, before now, beforetime, bygone days,
bygone times, days gone by, dead past, earlier, erenow, erewhile,
erst, foretime, former times, formerly, heretofore, historically,
history, hitherto, in the past, in times past, lang syne,
only yesterday, past, past history, past times, prehistorically,
previously, priorly, recent past, recently, the irrevocable Past,
the past, then, thou unrelenting past, times past, whilom,
yesteryear, yore
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
YESTERDAY, noun The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire
past of age.
But yesterday I should have thought me blest
To stand high-pinnacled upon the peak
Of middle life and look adown the bleak
And unfamiliar foreslope to the West,
Where solemn shadows all the land invest
And stilly voices, half-remembered, speak
Unfinished prophecy, and witch-fires freak
The haunted twilight of the Dark of Rest.
Yea, yesterday my soul was all aflame
To stay the shadow on the dial's face
At manhood's noonmark! Now, in God His name
I chide aloud the little interspace
Disparting me from Certitude, and fain
Would know the dream and vision ne'er again.
Baruch Arnegriff
It is said that in his last illness the poet Arnegriff was
attended at different times by seven doctors.
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