yesteryear
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8.3
- noun
- /ˈjɛstərˌjɪr/
- Literature
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tiempos pasados
- What happened to all the great singers of yesteryear?
Feast your eyes on the pictures of yesteryear.
- Feast your eyes on the pictures of yesteryear.
- So writing code just as yesteryear, man creativity.
- I guess there was, you know, some wonderful writing and feature films and in plays when you know, in yesteryear.
Examples
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Like many fruit and vegetable varieties of yesteryear, Charleston Gray has lost ground to new hybrids.
Academic text (1994) -
Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear.
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We're playing all of the Christmas hits from yesteryear and today.
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Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, and come with us to yesteryear.
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Return to the thrilling days of yesteryear for adventure beneath the streets of Los Angeles!
Fiction book (1999) -
Were the days of yesteryear more peaceful and idyllic?
Academic text (1990) -
When the kings of yesteryear built this citadel, it was intended as the high seat of all Thrace.
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Despite the differences between oil politics today and those of yesteryear, however, there remain important continuities between the two eras.
Academic text (1999) -
Shopping malls have replaced yesteryear's soda fountains and drive-ins as the teen hangouts of the 1990s.
Academic text (1997) -
The fashion trends of yesteryear often come back into style in surprising ways.
Synonyms
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1.0
The time before now when events happened
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2.1
A time in the past you remember with warm feelings
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5.5
A time in the past people remember with warm feelings, often when they were young
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3.4
The past that people remember with warm feelings
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4.1
A past time people remember as happier or simpler
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9.9
A time long ago often remembered in stories
Antonyms
How Distant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Yesteryear is made of the old part yester- meaning 'yesterday' or 'past' and the familiar word year, so it paints the idea of 'a year from the past'. That's why we use yesteryear to talk about a time in the past, often with a warm feeling that things were different or better.