yesteryear

See also: yester-year

English

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Etymology

Compound of yester- +‎ year. Coined by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, to translate Middle French antan (“last year”) (in Ballad 1 of François Villon's Testament), from Vulgar Latin *anteannum (“the year before”).

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈjɛstəjɪə/
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Noun

yesteryear (plural yesteryears)

  1. (poetic) Past years; time gone by; yore.
  2. (rare) Last year.
    • 1928, D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover, ch. 5:
      Where are the snows of yesteryear?

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