Meanings
- archaicnot comparablerareOf or pertaining to yesterday.
For men born of yesterday are yestern
1970, Trumbull Stickney, Dramatic Verses, Ardent Media, →ISBN, page 351 more example
Argos, I fear, will pay us soon again Her yestern debt[…]
1868, John Conington, transl., The Iliad of Homer
- archaicnot comparableYesterday.
"F. Newman's book I saw yestern at our ouse," Arnold writes to Clough. "He seems to have written himself down an hass.
1949, Lionel Trilling, Matthew Arnold, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 169
plural yesterns
- archaicYesterday.
Jestern, was Joyce's yestern.
2011, Glenn P. Wolfe, Mneme's Place: Book One (fiction), iUniverse, →ISBN, page 223 more examples
Yestern was the day of hail, […]
1839, Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, “Knight Toggenburg”, in Montagu Montagu, editor, The Song of the Bell, and other Poems, Digitized edition, published 2006, page 85Yestern, who was there could compete with me in strength?
1840, Amelia Lane, The Fortress: An Historical Tale of the Fifteenth Century, Digitized edition, published 2012, page 305For this day ought to promise not so much mulch as yesterday or all the other yesterns all back in a row of boredowndom.
1977, Bill Reed, Dogod, Digitized edition, published 2009, →ISBN, page 76
Origin
Perhaps from yester + -en. Compare also Old English ġiestran (“yesterday”).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Persian دینه
- دینه (dine)yesterday
Russian вчера́шний
- вчера́шний (včerášnij)yesterday
Spanish ayereño
- ayereñoyesterday
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