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yestermorn

yestermorn adverb: during the morning of yesterday; yesterday morning.

Adverb

yestermorn (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) During the morning of yesterday; yesterday morning.
    • But yeſter-morn, whoſe houſe was ſo great, ſo flouriſhing as Manfred's?1764 December 24 (indicated as 1765), Onuphrio Muralto, translated by William Marshal [pseudonyms; Horace Walpole], chapter II, in The Castle of Otranto, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Lownds […], →OCLC...
    • "That, Clara," I said, "is the gate, that the street which yestermorn your father rode up."1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter III, in The Last Man. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 88

Noun

yestermorn (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) The morning of yesterday.
    • The sad accident at Lyme was soon the prevailing topic; and on comparing their latest accounts of the invalid, it appeared that each lady dated her intelligence from the same hour of yester morn, […]1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume IV, London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC...
    • By the wisdom of the centuries I speak— / To the tune of yestermorn I set the truth— / I, the joy of life unquestioned—I, the Greek— / I, the everlasting Wonder Song of Youth!1896, Rudyard Kipling, “[The Seven Seas.] The Song of the Banjo.”, in The Seven Seas, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 84
    Synonyms:
    yestermorning

Synonyms of yestermorn

Origin of yestermorn

From yester- + morn.

Questions about yestermorn

What does yestermorn mean?
Yestermorn means during the morning of yesterday; yesterday morning.
What part of speech is yestermorn?
Yestermorn can be an adverb or a noun.

Words near yestermorn in the dictionary

  1. yestergays
  2. yesterly
  3. yestermillennium
  4. yesterminute
  5. yestermonth
  6. yestermorn
  7. yestermorning
  8. yestermorrow
  9. yestermorrows
  10. yestern
  11. yesternight

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