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"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1917 April, Fullerton L[eonard] Waldo, “Embattled Serbia”, in The Forum, volume LVII, New York, N.Y.: The Forum Publishing Company […], section I, page 448:",
"text": "Was it yesteryear or centuries ago that the Orient Express thundered over that narrow, glistening channel and linked the Golden Horn to the Seine?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1992, V. James Lovalvo, “Role Models of Righteousness in the Book of Mormon”, in James Van Treese, editor, Book of Mormon Reflections: “Truth in Perspective”, Salt Lake City, Ut.: Northwest Publishing Inc., →ISBN, section “General Moroni”, page 329:",
"text": "To believe in God was to Moroni’s credit. But to believe in the Son of God, a Being who had only been prophesied about and whose birth was still in the future, is truly remarkable. It is similar to those who lived yesteryear (and are living today) after the coming of Christ, who believed (and who do believe) in Him, although He has never been seen in person.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2005, James Lazell, “Ways of Looking at Diversity”, in Island: Fact and Theory in Nature, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, section “Rarefaction”, page 13, column 2:",
"text": "What lives there today provides a clue as to what lived here yesteryear.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In past years."
],
"links": [
[
"past",
"past"
],
[
"year",
"year"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(poetic) In past years."
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable",
"poetic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈjɛstəjɪə/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈjɛstərjɪər/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈjestəjøː/",
"tags": [
"General-South-African"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈjɛstəjɜː/",
"note": "Wales, other regions"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-yesteryear.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/83/En-us-yesteryear.ogg/En-us-yesteryear.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/En-us-yesteryear.ogg"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "yester-year"
}
],
"word": "yesteryear"
}
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