Yesterday

Noun

 * 1) The day before today.
 * Yesterday was rainy, but by this morning it had begun to snow.
 * 1) The (recent) past, often disparaging.
 * Yesterday's technology.
 * All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. [Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5]

Derived terms

 * born yesterday

Adverb
yesterday


 * 1) On the day before today
 * I started to watch the video yesterday, but could only finish it this evening.

Synonyms

 * the last day (Ireland)

Antonyms

 * tomorrow

Related terms

 * yester
 * yestereven
 * yestern
 * yesternight
 * yesteryear
 * yestreen

Thesaurus
aforetime, before, before now, beforetime, bygone days, bygone times, days gone by, dead past, earlier, erenow, erewhile, erst, foretime, former times, formerly, heretofore, historically, history, hitherto, in the past, in times past, lang syne, only yesterday, past, past history, past times, prehistorically, previously, priorly, recent past, recently, the irrevocable Past, the past, then, thou unrelenting past, times past, whilom, yesteryear, yore

Etymology
From <  geostran dæg:, equivalent to ; compounded from
 * Old English geostran: < < ;
 * Old English dæg: < <

Noun

 * Afrikaans: gister
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian:
 * Aromanian:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: учора
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ahir
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: εχτές
 * Greenlandic:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: (may refer to tomorrow, depending on the context)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: gærdagur (often with a definite article; gærdagurinn)
 * The adverb í gær is much more frequently used than the noun equivalent.
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: heri
 * Inuktitut: ᐃᑉᐸᒃᓴᖅ
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer: ម្សិលមិញ, ថ្ងៃម្សិល
 * Korean:
 * Lakota: htalehã
 * Latin:, hesternus
 * Lower Sorbian: cora


 * Macedonian: вчера (včera)
 * Malayalam: ഇന്നലെ (innale)
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian: i går
 * Ojibwe: bijiinaago
 * Papiamentu:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: ier
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: јучер, jučer, јуче,  juče
 * Sindhi: (kalha)
 * Sinhalese: ඊයේ
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, i går
 * Telugu: నిన్న (ninna)
 * Thai: เมื่อวานนี้, วาน,  วานนี้
 * Tok Pisin: asde
 * Turkish: dün
 * Ukrainian: учора / вчора
 * Upper Sorbian: wčera
 * Urdu: (may refer to tomorrow, depending on the context)
 * Uyghur: تۈنۈگۈن
 * Vietnamese: hôm qua
 * Volapük: ädel
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:


 * Armenian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Icelandic: gærdagur (often with a definite article; gærdagurinn)
 * Portuguese:


 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: gårdag
 * Turkish: dün

Adverb

 * Afrikaans: gister
 * Albanian: dje
 * Amuzgo: bja
 * Arabic: ,
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian:
 * Basque: atzo
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: dec'h
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ahir
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chickasaw: oblashush
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: dé
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic: ippassaq
 * Haitian Creole: yè
 * Hebrew: אתמול (etmól)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: heri
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer: ពីម្សិលមិញ
 * Korean: 어제 (eoje)


 * Lakota: htalehã
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: adverb: vakar; noun: vakardiena, vakarykštė diena
 * Luxembourgish: gëschter
 * Manx: jea
 * Nangikurrunggurr: kultyinimbi (Ngan'gityemerri)
 * Navajo:
 * Neapolitan: craje
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: gèr
 * Ojibwe: bijiinaago
 * Old English: geostran
 * Papiamentu: ayera
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: ier
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: јуче
 * Roman: juče
 * Sindhi: (kalha)
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tatar: kiçä
 * Telugu: నిన్న (ninna)
 * Thai: เมื่อวานนี้ (meùùa waan nēē)
 * Tok Pisin: asde
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: учора / вчора (učóra / včóra)
 * Uyghur: تۈنۈگۈن
 * Volapük: ädelo
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: juster