yesterday
pronunciation
How to pronounce yesterday in British English:
UK [ˈjestədeɪ]
How to pronounce yesterday in American English:
US [ˈjestərdeɪ]
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- Noun:
- the day immediately before today
- the recent past
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- Adverb:
- on the day preceding today
- in the recent past; only a short time ago
Word Origin
- yesterday
- yesterday: [OE] The yester- of yesterday (and of yesteryear [19], coined by Dante Gabriel Rossetti) was originally a free-standing word, meaning ‘yesterday’, but by the time records of it in Old English begin it was already locked into a collocation with day. Its ultimate source is Indo-European *ghes, which also produced Latin herī (source of French hier, Italian and Romanian ieri, and Spanish ayer), Welsh doe, German gestern, and Dutch gisteren.
- yesterday (n., adv.)
- Old English geostran dæg; see yester- + day.
Example
- 1. Around 30 people were rescued yesterday .
- 2. Lehman declined to comment yesterday .
- 3. However , that was yesterday and today is another story .
- 4. Chinese stocks touched a two-month high yesterday as the optimism over the country 's policy outlook showed few signs of abating .
- 5. Yesterday we ate a lot !