yesterday

Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow.

Yesterday was rainy, but by this morning it had begun to snow.

Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away …

The day immediately before today; one day ago.

yesterday's technology

The worker of today is different from that of yesterday.

All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.

c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:

Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.

2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:

(figuratively) The past, often in terms of being outdated.

কালি

may refer to tomorrow, depending on the context

gærdagur (often with a definite article; gærdagurinn; the adverb í gær is much more frequently used than the noun equivalent)

gærdagur (often with a definite article; gærdagurinn)

From Middle English yesterday, yisterday, ȝesterdai, ȝisterdai, from Old English ġiestrandæġ, ġister dæġ, ġestor dæġ, ġeostran dæġ. Compare Scots yisterday, yesterday (“yesterday”), Gothic 𐌲𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍂𐌰𐌳𐌰𐌲𐌹𐍃 (gistradagis, “tomorrow”, adverb). Compare further Dutch gisteren, German gestern. By surface analysis, yester- + day.


yesterday

I started to watch the video yesterday, but could only finish it this evening.

I want this done yesterday!


yesterday

At another preceding point in time; in the past

From Old English ġiestrandæġ; equivalent to yester- + day.


yesterday

English: yesterday

Scots: ȝisterday, ȝesterday

Yola: yersthei, yerstei, yerstey