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yesterday

DEFINITIONS OF: yesterday

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n the day immediately before today

“it was in yesterday's newspapers”
Type of:
24-hour interval, day, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis

n the recent past

“yesterday's solutions are not good enough”
“we shared many yesterdays”
Type of:
past, past times, yesteryear
the time that has elapsed

adv on the day preceding today

“yesterday the weather was beautiful”

adv in the recent past; only a short time ago

“I was not born yesterday!”
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