yesterday
yesterday is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.2. 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.
- 2.On the day last past; on the day preceding to-day; as, the affair took place yesterday.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- afresh
- ago
- and
- anew
- bene
- brand-new
- daisy
- date
- day
- dictum
- est
- evergreen
- fashion
- fashionable
- fire-new
- fresh
- gloss
- green
- hip
- immature
- immaturity
- innovation
- jam
- just
- late
- lately
- latterly
- long
- minute
- modern
- modernism
- modernize
- mushroom
- nascent
- neoteric
- new
- newly
- newness
- non
- not
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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