adverb, noun
adverb on the day before today:
They arrived yesterday. * I can remember our wedding as if it were yesterday. * Where were you yesterday morning? * To think I was lying on a beach only the day before yesterday.
IDIOMS see BORNv.
noun [U]
1 the day before today:
Yesterday was Sunday. * What happened at yesterday's meeting?
2 (also yesterdays [pl.]) the recent past:
Yesterday's students are today's employees. * All her yesterdays had vanished without a trace.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for yesterday is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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