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YESTERDAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The day immediately before today
Example:
it was in yesterday's newspapers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("yesterday" is a kind of...):
24-hour interval; day; mean solar day; solar day; twenty-four hour period; twenty-four hours (time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The recent past
Example:
we shared many yesterdays
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("yesterday" is a kind of...):
past; past times; yesteryear (the time that has elapsed)
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
On the day preceding today
Example:
yesterday the weather was beautiful
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Sense 2
Meaning:
In the recent past; only a short time ago
Example:
I was not born yesterday!
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Context examples:
And yet where was the Jane Eyre of yesterday? —where was her life? —where were her prospects?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
“I am almost certain that the meeting at the Crown is not till to-morrow. Mr. Knightley was at Hartfield yesterday, and spoke of it as for Saturday.”
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Yesterday evening I went to Esher to fulfil this engagement.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Till yesterday, I believe, she never doubted his regard; and even now, perhaps—but I am almost convinced that he never was really attached to her.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
“I trust that you have taken no hurt from all that you have gone through yesterday.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I seen a girl already, just yesterday, and, d'ye know, I'm feelin' already I'd just as soon marry her as not.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Colonel Forster came yesterday, having left Brighton the day before, not many hours after the express.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It was only yesterday that it came to the ears of his father, who would have none of it.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But I should be extremely obliged to you if you would come down with me to Woking to-morrow, by the same train which we took yesterday.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Cake and wine; yesterday was baking-day, so poor sick grandmother is to have something good, to make her stronger.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
