yestern
English
Etymology
Perhaps from yester + -en. Compare also Old English ġiestran (“yesterday”).
Adjective
yestern (not comparable)
- (archaic, rare) Of or pertaining to yesterday.
- 1868, John Conington, transl., The Iliad of Homer:
- Argos, I fear, will pay us soon again
Her yestern debt […]
- 1970, Trumbull Stickney, Dramatic Verses[1], Ardent Media, →ISBN, page 35:
- For men born of yesterday are yestern
Adverb
yestern (not comparable)
- (archaic) Yesterday.
- 1949, Lionel Trilling, Matthew Arnold[2], Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 169:
- "F. Newman's book I saw yestern at our ouse," Arnold writes to Clough. "He seems to have written himself down an hass.
Noun
yestern (plural yesterns)
- (archaic) Yesterday.
- 1839, Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, “Knight Toggenburg”, in Montagu Montagu, editor, The Song of the Bell, and other Poems[3], Digitized edition, published 2006, page 85:
- Yestern was the day of hail, […]
- 1840, Amelia Lane, The Fortress: An Historical Tale of the Fifteenth Century[4], Digitized edition, published 2012, page 305:
- Yestern, who was there could compete with me in strength?
- 1977, Bill Reed, Dogod[5], Digitized edition, published 2009, →ISBN, page 76:
- For this day ought to promise not so much mulch as yesterday or all the other yesterns all back in a row of boredowndom.
- 2011, Glenn P. Wolfe, Mneme's Place: Book One[6] (fiction), iUniverse, →ISBN, page 22:
- Jestern, was Joyce's yestern.
Translations
yesterday
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