What does "yesterday" mean?
Yesterday: 2. Fig.: A recent time; time not long past. The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of supreme pontiffs. Macaulay.
Additional senses
- 2.On the day last past; on the day preceding to-day; as, the affair took place yesterday.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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