Synonyms for yester-year
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : yes-ter-yeer, -yeer |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈyɛs tərˈyɪər, -ˌyɪər |
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Définition of yester-year
Origin :- coined 1870 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti from yester(day) + 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?"
- As in past : noun time gone by
- As in good old days : noun times of old considered better than present
- As in yesteryear : noun time elapsed
- As in history : noun past events, experiences
- It was spring, in a way, but not the spring of yester-year, with its songs and laughter and high hopes.
- Extract from : « Shadow Mountain » by Dane Coolidge
- And parting waiteth for us there,” Said he, “As it was yester-year.
- Extract from : « Poems by the Way » by William Morris
- Indeed, it would appear so; and where are the laurels of yester-year?
- Extract from : « Some Diversions of a Man of Letters » by Edmund William Gosse
- Yester-year perhaps, for a sorrow clings about it; it conveys a sense of autumn, of "the long decline of roses."
- Extract from : « Memoirs of My Dead Life » by George Moore
- Shrine and Tabard, Chapels and Inns by the way, all have gone with the pilgrims of yester-year.
- Extract from : « A Canterbury Pilgrimage » by Joseph Pennell and Elizabeth Robins Pennell
- It will be observed that there are shops—or things in the specious and illusory shape of shops—in this town of Yester-year.
- Extract from : « The Hardy Country » by Charles G. Harper
- The life of the last ten years which we knew and loved so well, has vanished like the snows of yester-year.
- Extract from : « War Days in Brittany » by Elsie Deming Jarves
- No Irish Member could afford to be off on this scene, so one after another they trotted out their speeches of yester-year.
- Extract from : « Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 102, Feb. 20, 1892 » by Various
- He that by absence missed his share of yester-year shall now receive that too.
- Extract from : « The Works of Lucian of Samosata, v. 4 » by Lucian of Samosata
- Rossetti's "Yester-year" moreover, is an absurd and affected neologism; "Antan" is an excellent and living French word.
- Extract from : « Avril » by H. Belloc
Antonyms for yester-year
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