yestern
yestern adjective: of or pertaining to yesterday.
Adjective
yestern (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to yesterday.
- Argos, I fear, will pay us soon again
Her yestern debt[…]1868, John Conington, transl., The Iliad of Homer - For men born of yesterday are yestern1970, Trumbull Stickney, Dramatic Verses, Ardent Media, →ISBN, page 35
- Argos, I fear, will pay us soon again
Adverb
yestern (not comparable)
- Yesterday.
- "F. Newman's book I saw yestern at our ouse," Arnold writes to Clough. "He seems to have written himself down an hass.1949, Lionel Trilling, Matthew Arnold, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 169
Noun
yestern (plural yesterns)
- Yesterday.
- Yestern was the day of hail, […]1839, Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, “Knight Toggenburg”, in Montagu Montagu, editor, The Song of the Bell, and other Poems, Digitized edition, published 2006, page 85
- Yestern, who was there could compete with me in strength?1840, Amelia Lane, The Fortress: An Historical Tale of the Fifteenth Century, Digitized edition, published 2012, page 305
yestern meaning in Persian
yestern in Persian
- yesterday
- دینه dine
Forms of yestern
| plural | yesterns |
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Origin of yestern
Perhaps from yester + -en. Compare also Old English ġiestran (“yesterday”).
Questions about yestern
- What does yestern mean?
- Yestern means of or pertaining to yesterday.
- What is yestern in Persian?
- Yestern in Persian is دینه (dine). See Yestern meaning in Persian.
- What part of speech is yestern?
- Yestern can be an adjective, an adverb or a noun.
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