yesterday

Universal Words 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.