| 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!. | ||