English noun: yesterday | |||
1. | yesterday (time) the day immediately before today | ||
Samples | It was in yesterday's newspapers. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | 24-hour interval, day, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours | ||
2. | yesterday (time) the recent past | ||
Samples | Yesterday's solutions are not good enough. We shared many yesterdays. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | past, past times, yesteryear | ||
English adverb: yesterday | |||
1. | yesterday on the day preceding today | ||
Samples | Yesterday the weather was beautiful. | ||
2. | yesterday in the recent past; only a short time ago | ||
Samples | I was not born yesterday!. | ||