Synonyms for yesteryear
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : yes-ter-yeer, -yeer |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈyɛs tərˈyɪər, -ˌyɪər |
Définition of yesteryear
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?"
- noun time elapsed
- That was the word the sloppy copyist of yesteryear had wrongly transcribed.
- Extract from : « G-r-r-r...! » by Roger Arcot
- Yesteryear he was mad for the open air, and the games, and the joy of life.
- Extract from : « The God of Love » by Justin Huntly McCarthy
- In that moment books and plays seemed like the snows of yesteryear.
- Extract from : « May Iverson's Career » by Elizabeth Jordan
- Oh, well, all flesh is grass, and there is no grass of yesteryear.
- Extract from : « The Little Lady of the Big House » by Jack London
- Like the lovers of yesteryear, those of to-day were prisoners.
- Extract from : « The Golden Triangle » by Maurice Leblanc
- He writes better about Manet than about an amatory encounter of yesteryear.
- Extract from : « The Critical Game » by John Albert Macy
- Forgotten were the nine cubs of the year before, and the quartettes and sextettes of many a yesteryear.
- Extract from : « Wild Folk » by Samuel Scoville
- They understand that the gowns being worn in Paris before March are the gowns of yesteryear.
- Extract from : « In Vanity Fair » by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd
- Lower, and even Middle bars and restaurants were universally automated, and the waiter or waitress a thing of yesteryear.
- Extract from : « Mercenary » by Dallas McCord Reynolds
- One night in yesteryear he was announced to deliver a speech at a meeting held in Nottingham.
- Extract from : « The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 » by Various
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