yesteryear
pronunciation
How to pronounce yesteryear in British English:
UK [ˈjestəjɪə(r)]
How to pronounce yesteryear in American English:
US [ˈjestərjɪr]
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- Noun:
- the time that has elapsed
Word Origin
- yesteryear (n.)
- coined 1870 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti from yester- + year to translate French antan (from Vulgar Latin *anteannum "the year before") in a refrain by François Villon: Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan? which Rossetti rendered "But where are the snows of yesteryear?"
Example
- 1. Celebrating such inventions of yesteryear prompts three thoughts .
- 2. The system almost guarantees that fresh capital goes to the losers of yesteryear .
- 3. It is easy , far too easy , to ridicule now the illusions of yesteryear .
- 4. Another is instilling patriotic pride , a motive very familiar to expo organisers of yesteryear .
- 5. But while their poses and outfits are largely similar , there are glaring differences about today 's pageants and those of yesteryear .