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yestereve

yestereve noun: yesterday evening.

Noun

yestereve (plural yestereves)

  1. (archaic) Yesterday evening.
    • Only yestereve, you wot, one of Lord de Grey's men-at-arms came limping to us with the news of the awful carnage the foul fiend had wrought on his master's household.1927, Edgar Rice Burrows, The Outlaw of Torn, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008

Adverb

yestereve (not comparable)

  1. (During) yesterday evening.

Synonyms of yestereve

All synonyms of yestereve

Forms of yestereve

pluralyestereves

Origin of yestereve

From Middle English yester even, yistreven, alteration of yestereven (“last night, yesterday evening”), from Old English ġiestranǣfen (“yesterday evening”), equivalent to yester- + eve (“evening”).

Questions about yestereve

What does yestereve mean?
Yestereve means yesterday evening.
What part of speech is yestereve?
Yestereve can be a noun or an adverb.
What is the plural of yestereve?
The plural of yestereve is yestereves.

Words near yestereve in the dictionary

  1. yesterdays
  2. yesterdom
  3. yestere'en
  4. yestereen
  5. yestereens
  6. yestereve
  7. yestereven
  8. yesterevening
  9. yestereves
  10. yesterfang
  11. yestergay

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