Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - yesterday
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Yesterday
yesterday
~ n 1 the day before today (What did you do yesterday? | The day before yesterday was Monday. | He left yesterday afternoon. | I'm looking for yesterday's paper.) 2 the recent past (yesterday's news (=not new or modern and therefore no longer of any interest)) (The voters won't care about the scandal - that's yesterday's news.) 3 I wasn't born yesterday used to say that you cannot be easily deceived (Don't lie to me! Do you think I was born yesterday?)
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(yesterdays) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. You use yesterday to refer to the day before today. She left yesterday... Yesterday she announced that she is quitting her job. ADV: ADV with cl • Yesterday is also a noun. In yesterday’s games, Switzerland beat the United States two-one. N-UNCOUNT 2. You can refer to the past, especially the recent past, as yesterday. The worker of today is different from the worker of yesterday. N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. adverb Etymology: Middle English yisterday, from Old English giestran d?g, from giestran ~ + d?g day; akin to Old High German gestaron ~, Latin heri, Greek chthes Date: before 12th century 1. on the day last past ; on the day preceding today 2. at a time not long past ; only a short time ago I wasn't born ~ • ~ adjective II. noun Date: before 12th century 1. the day last past ; the day next before the present 2. recent time ; time not long past 3. past time — usually used in plural ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adv. & n. --adv. 1 on the day before today. 2 in the recent past. --n. 1 the day before today. 2 the recent past. Phrases and idioms yesterday morning (or afternoon etc.) in the morning (or afternoon etc.) of yesterday. Etymology: OE giestran d{aelig}g (as YESTER-, DAY) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. вчерашний день the day before yesterday —- позавчера, третьего дня yesterday's newpaper —- вчерашняя газета yesterday was cold and rainy —- вчера лил дождь и было холодно 2. недавнее прошлое it is but of yesterday —- это только недавно появилось an invention of yesterday —- изобретение последнего времени all pomp of yesterday —- вся недавняя пышность fashions of yesterday —- вчерашняя мода 3. pl. книж. прошлое, былое 4. редк. вчерашний yesterday morning —- вчерашнее утро; вчера утром yesterday evening —- вчерашний вечер; вчера вечером; недавний 5. вчера he arrived yesterday —- он приехал вчера 6. только вчера, недавно I was not born yesterday —- я не вчера (на свет) родился towns that yesterday were hamlets —- города, которые еще вчера (совсем недавно) были деревушками ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. adv. 1) вчера; yesterday morning - вчера утром 2) совсем недавно 2. noun вчерашний день; yesterdays incident - вчерашний случай ...Англо-русский словарь
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- O.E. geostran dжg, from geostran "yesterday" (from P.Gmc. *gestra-, from PIE *ghes) + dжg "day." Yesteryear coined 1870 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti to translate Fr. antan (from V.L. *anteannum "the year before") in a poem by Villon. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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