Yesteryear
noun
The time that went by; last year or the recent past.
The fashion of yesteryear has made a comeback this season.
Often appears as...
- in yesteryear
- of yesteryear
noun
A period of past time in history or in someone's personal experience.
The cinema of yesteryear had a charm of its own.
Often appears as...
- cinema of yesteryear
- charm of yesteryear
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Literary
noun
The time that went by; last year or the recent past.
The fashion of yesteryear has made a comeback this season.
Often appears as...
- in yesteryear
- of yesteryear
noun
A period of past time in history or in someone's personal experience.
The cinema of yesteryear had a charm of its own.
Often appears as...
- cinema of yesteryear
- charm of yesteryear
Usage tips
Literary
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Period Reference
Used to refer to a nonspecific past, not strictly the previous year.
The music of yesteryear still resonates with many today.
Pro Tip 2/3Romanticizing Past
Often used to romanticize or idealize the past, especially in comparison to the present.
People often talk about the simpler times of yesteryear.
Pro Tip 3/3Archaic Tone
Gives a tone of old-fashionedness or antiquity to the sentence.
The craftsmanship of yesteryear is unmatched in modern times.
Pro Tip 1/3Period Reference
Used to refer to a nonspecific past, not strictly the previous year.
The music of yesteryear still resonates with many today.
Pro Tip 2/3Romanticizing Past
Often used to romanticize or idealize the past, especially in comparison to the present.
People often talk about the simpler times of yesteryear.
Pro Tip 3/3Archaic Tone
Gives a tone of old-fashionedness or antiquity to the sentence.
The craftsmanship of yesteryear is unmatched in modern times.
Pro Tip 1/3Period Reference
Used to refer to a nonspecific past, not strictly the previous year.
The music of yesteryear still resonates with many today.
Pro Tip 2/3Romanticizing Past
Often used to romanticize or idealize the past, especially in comparison to the present.
People often talk about the simpler times of yesteryear.
Pro Tip 3/3Archaic Tone
Gives a tone of old-fashionedness or antiquity to the sentence.
The craftsmanship of yesteryear is unmatched in modern times.
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Demand a more...
announced in the competition can you imagine in the bureaucratic world of yesteryear getting anything done in a four-month period of time you can barely fill out the forms in that amount of time let alone generate real palpable innovations that improve people's lives
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The brain in love PIPE...
that pull us to one person rather than another. So, I will close with this. These are my older people. Faulkner said, "The past is not dead, it's not even past." Indeed, we carry a lot of luggage from our yesteryear in the human brain.
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Demand a more...
announced in the competition can you imagine in the bureaucratic world of yesteryear getting anything done in a four-month period of time you can barely fill out the forms in that amount of time let alone generate real palpable innovations that improve people's lives
Video examples
The brain in love PIPE...
that pull us to one person rather than another. So, I will close with this. These are my older people. Faulkner said, "The past is not dead, it's not even past." Indeed, we carry a lot of luggage from our yesteryear in the human brain.
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Quote examples
John Podhoretz
American Writer
That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the present, he has spoken specifically and in unprecedented fashion of Republicans as his rivals, his stumbling blocks, the primary cause of his troubles.
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Arlie Russell Hochschild
American Educator
We don't live with the community of yesteryear. And we don't enjoy the public services Europeans do. So we turn to the market. Once we do, we find that service providers raise the standards of personal life, so that we come to feel we need them to live our 'best' personal lives.
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Jerry West
American Businessman
We talk about players of yesteryear, guys who could play or couldn't play, and I think it's ridiculous to try to even compare people... The things that you can do in basketball today that you couldn't even do then... you can carry the ball; you walk all over the place.
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Jon Meacham
American Editor
The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.
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Kathy Freston
American Author
So if you serve a whole chicken to your family like grandma did, you may be serving them 10 times as much fat than the days of yesteryear. That's a whole lotta fat, and big trouble for the waistline.
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Thomas F. Wilson
American Actor
I've decided to do what I want to do in life and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided not to participate in any sort of nostalgia in which I'm marginalized as a pop icon of yesteryear.
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Charles R. Swindoll
American Clergyman
I have no interest in returning to yesteryear. I love the conveniences and delights of today's time. I wouldn't go back if I could.
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Shamna Kasim
Indian Actress
I was approached for the remake of Maniyara,' the yesteryear film that starred actors Mammootty and Seema in the lead.
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Art Modell
American Businessman
The quality of ownership is not what it was in yesteryear.
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Compay Segundo
Cuban Musician
I play music the way it was played in yesteryear.
Quote examples
John Podhoretz
American Writer
That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the present, he has spoken specifically and in unprecedented fashion of Republicans as his rivals, his stumbling blocks, the primary cause of his troubles.
Quote examples
Arlie Russell Hochschild
American Educator
We don't live with the community of yesteryear. And we don't enjoy the public services Europeans do. So we turn to the market. Once we do, we find that service providers raise the standards of personal life, so that we come to feel we need them to live our 'best' personal lives.
Quote examples
Jerry West
American Businessman
We talk about players of yesteryear, guys who could play or couldn't play, and I think it's ridiculous to try to even compare people... The things that you can do in basketball today that you couldn't even do then... you can carry the ball; you walk all over the place.
Quote examples
Jon Meacham
American Editor
The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.
Quote examples
Kathy Freston
American Author
So if you serve a whole chicken to your family like grandma did, you may be serving them 10 times as much fat than the days of yesteryear. That's a whole lotta fat, and big trouble for the waistline.
Quote examples
Thomas F. Wilson
American Actor
I've decided to do what I want to do in life and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided not to participate in any sort of nostalgia in which I'm marginalized as a pop icon of yesteryear.
Quote examples
Charles R. Swindoll
American Clergyman
I have no interest in returning to yesteryear. I love the conveniences and delights of today's time. I wouldn't go back if I could.
Quote examples
Shamna Kasim
Indian Actress
I was approached for the remake of Maniyara,' the yesteryear film that starred actors Mammootty and Seema in the lead.
Quote examples
Art Modell
American Businessman
The quality of ownership is not what it was in yesteryear.
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Compay Segundo
Cuban Musician
I play music the way it was played in yesteryear.
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