yesterday

n.

1. The day before the present day.
2. also yesterdays Time in the past, especially the recent past.

adv.

1. On the day before the present day.
2. A short while ago.

[Middle English, from Old English geostran dæg : geostran, yesterday; see yester- + dæg, day; see day.]

noun

A former period of time or of one's life: past, yesteryear, yore. Idioms: bygone days, days gone by, the good old days, the old days. See time.

n

Definition: the day before today
Antonyms: tomorrow

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A cynical view of the world by Ambrose Bierce

n.

The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.

    But yesterday I should have thought me blest
        To stand high-pinnacled upon the peak
        Of middle life and look adown the bleak
    And unfamiliar foreslope to the West,
    Where solemn shadows all the land invest
        And stilly voices, half-remembered, speak
        Unfinished prophecy, and witch-fires freak
    The haunted twilight of the Dark of Rest.
    Yea, yesterday my soul was all aflame
        To stay the shadow on the dial's face
    At manhood's noonmark!  Now, in God His name
        I chide aloud the little interspace
    Disparting me from Certitude, and fain
    Would know the dream and vision ne'er again.
                                                      Baruch Arnegriff

It is said that in his last illness the poet Arnegriff was attended at different times by seven doctors.

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IN BRIEF: The day before today. Also: Some time in the past.

Using today to mop up yesterday wipes out tomorrow. — Carol Hardgrove.

Dansk (Danish)
adv. - i går
n. - dagen i går

Nederlands (Dutch)
gister(en), het (recente) verleden

Français (French)
adv. - (lit) hier, (fig) hier, autrefois
n. - (lit) hier, (fig) d'hier, du passé

Deutsch (German)
adv. - gestern
n. - gestriger Tag

Ελληνική (Greek)
adv. - χτες
n. - χθες, η χθεσινή ημέρα

Italiano (Italian)
ieri

Português (Portuguese)
adv. - ontem
n. - ontem (m)

Русский (Russian)
вчера, недавное прошлое, вчерашний

Español (Spanish)
adv. - ayer
n. - ayer

Svenska (Swedish)
adv. - i går
n. - gårdagen

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
昨天

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adv. - 昨天
n. - 昨天

한국어 (Korean)
adv. - 어제, 요즈음에, 최근에
n. - 어제, 요즈음 , 과거

日本語 (Japanese)
adv. - 昨日, ついこの間

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(ظرف) امس, البارحه (الاسم) أمس‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adv. - ‮אתמול, בעבר הקרוב, באופן דחוף או מיידי (מדוברת)‬
n. - ‮אתמול, העבר הקרוב‬

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Yesterday	yesterday once more