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yestreen

yestreen noun: the night before; last night.

Noun

yestreen (plural yestreens)

  1. (Scotland, archaic, poetic) The night before; last night.
    • Late yestreen I saw the new moon, the old moon in her arms"Sir Patrick Spens," traditional Scottish ballad
    • It was the creature Dougal that extricated me, as he did yestreen […]1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Rob Roy. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst...
    Synonyms:
    list in yestereve

yestreen meaning in Tamil

yestreen in Tamil

நேற்றையத் தொந்தரவு

Synonyms of yestreen

  • list in yestereve

Forms of yestreen

pluralyestreens
alternative formyestereen
alternative formyestere'en

Origin of yestreen

From Middle English yestreen, alteration of yestereven (“last night, yesterday evening”), from Old English ġiestranǣfen (“yesterday evening”), equivalent to yester- + e'en (“evening”). Cognate with West Frisian justerjûn (“yestreen; last night”).

Questions about yestreen

What does yestreen mean?
Yestreen means the night before; last night.
What is yestreen in Tamil?
Yestreen in Tamil is நேற்றையத் தொந்தரவு. See Yestreen meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is yestreen?
Yestreen is a noun.
What is the plural of yestreen?
The plural of yestreen is yestreens.

Words near yestreen in the dictionary

  1. yesteryears
  2. yestiddy
  3. yestie
  4. yestier
  5. yestiest
  6. yestreen
  7. yestreens
  8. yests
  9. yesty
  10. Yesvember
  11. yeswoman

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yestreen (page history and authors); yestreen (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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