yestern

Y4E1S1T1E1R1N1

adjective

Of or pertaining to yesterday.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

adjectiveyestern (not comparable)
  1. archaicnot comparablerareOf or pertaining to yesterday.

    For men born of yesterday are yestern

    1970, Trumbull Stickney, Dramatic Verses, Ardent Media, →ISBN, page 35
    1 more example

    Argos, I fear, will pay us soon again Her yestern debt[…]

    1868, John Conington, transl., The Iliad of Homer
adverbyestern (not comparable)
  1. 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
nounyestern (plural yesterns)

plural yesterns

  1. archaicYesterday.

    Jestern, was Joyce's yestern.

    2011, Glenn P. Wolfe, Mneme's Place: Book One (fiction), iUniverse, →ISBN, page 22
    3 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 85

    Yestern, 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 305

    For 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”).

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Translations

Persian دینه
  • دینه (dine)yesterday
Russian вчера́шний
  • вчера́шний (včerášnij)yesterday
Spanish ayereño
  • ayereñoyesterday

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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