'Yesterday' definitions:
Definition of 'yesterday'
From: WordNet
adverb
On the day preceding today; "yesterday the weather was beautiful"
adverb
In the recent past; only a short time ago; "I was not born yesterday!"
noun
The day immediately before today; "it was in yesterday's newspapers"
noun
The recent past; "yesterday's solutions are not good enough"; "we shared many yesterdays"
Definition of 'Yesterday'
From: GCIDE
- Yesterday \Yes"ter*day\, adv. On the day last past; on the day preceding to-day; as, the affair took place yesterday. [1913 Webster] Yestereve
Definition of 'Yesterday'
From: GCIDE
- Yesterday \Yes"ter*day\, n. [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. ????.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The day last past; the day next before the present. [1913 Webster]
- All our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- We are but of yesterday, and know nothing. --Job viii. 9. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Fig.: A recent time; time not long past. [1913 Webster]
- The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of supreme pontiffs. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'yesterday'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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