Definitions of yesterday
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the day immediately before today“it was in yesterday's newspapers”
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type of:
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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
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24-hour interval, day, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours
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the recent past“yesterday's solutions are not good enough”“we shared many yesterdays”
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type of:
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past, past times, yesteryear
the time that has elapsed
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past, past times, yesteryear
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on the day preceding today“yesterday the weather was beautiful”
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in the recent past; only a short time ago“I was not born yesterday!”
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