Meanings
plural yestereves
- archaicYesterday evening.
Only yestereve, you wot, one of Lord de Grey's men-at-arms came limping to us with the news of the awful carnage the foul fiend had wrought on his master's household.
1927, Edgar Rice Burrows, The Outlaw of Torn, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008Synonyms: yestereven, yesterevening, yestreen, last night, yesternight, yesterday night
- not comparableDuringyesterday evening.
Synonyms: yestereven, yesterevening, yestreen, last night, yesternight, yesterday night
Synonyms & antonyms
nounYesterday evening.
adverbyesterday evening.
Origin
- Old Englishġiestranǣfen“yesterday evening”
- Middle Englishyester even
- Englishyestereve
From Middle English yester even, yistreven, alteration of yestereven (“last night, yesterday evening”), from Old English ġiestranǣfen (“yesterday evening”), equivalent to yester- + eve (“evening”).
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