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Webster 1913 Edition

Yesteryear

Yes′ter-yearˊ

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Noun.

The year last past; last year.

Definition 2024

yesteryear

yesteryear

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English

Alternative forms

yester-year

Noun

yesteryear ‎(plural yesteryears)

(poetic) Past years; time gone by; yore.
(rare) Last year.
- 1928, D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover, ch. 5:
  Where are the snows of yesteryear?

Translations

times gone by

Catalan: antany
Dutch: weleer (nl) n, voorbije (nl) n, verleden (nl) n
Finnish: menneet vuodet (fi)
French: jadis (fr), antan (fr)
German: einst (de)
Greek: κάποτε (el) n ‎(kápote)

Ido: olim (io)
Italian: passato (it) m
Maori: raurangi
Spanish: antaño (es)
Vietnamese: xưa (vi), thời xưa (vi), ngày xưa (vi)
Welsh: llynedd f

last year

Basque: iaz (eu)
Bulgarian: лани (bg) ‎(lani)
Catalan: antany m
Czech: loni (cs)
Danish: i fjor
Dutch: gisterjaar n
Faroese: í fjør
Finnish: mennyt vuosi
French: année passée, an passé, année dernière, an dernier
German: Vorjahr (de) n
Greek: πέρυσι (el) n ‎(pérysi)
Hebrew: אשתקד (he) ‎(eshtakád)
Hungarian: tavaly (hu)
Irish: anuraidh

Italian: anno (it) scorso (it)
Korean: 작년 (ko) ‎(jangnyeon)
Latvian: pērn, pērngad
Low German:
German Low German: Vörjohr n
Persian: دیسال ‎(disâl)
Portuguese: ano passado m, antanho (pt) m
Russian: в прошлом году ‎(v prošlom godu)
Serbo-Croatian: lani (sh), лани
Slovak: vlani
Slovene: láni (sl)
Spanish: antaño (es) m, año pasado m
Swedish: i fjol (sv), i fjor (sv)
Welsh: llynedd f

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