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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
yesteryear
noun
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▪ Forget the promotional toasters and blenders of yesteryear.
▪ Joiners of yesteryear had their names stamped on their wooden planes and saw handles.
▪ Operating rooms come equipped with lasers and computers, not just the scalpels and saws of yesteryear.
▪ Snow from the mountains were used to make the sherbets of yesteryear, but nowadays we have freezers.
▪ The records of yesteryear and some older memories suggest Colin Booth was also a quite exceptional golfer.
▪ Today the parliaments of the Arab states seem to take themselves for the caliphal palaces of yesteryear.
▪ We are often told that the politicians of yesteryear were greater figures than the politicians of today.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yesteryear

Yesteryear \Yes"ter*year`\, n. The year last past; last year.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
yesteryear

coined 1870 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti from yester- + year to translate French antan (from Vulgar Latin *anteannum "the year before") in a refrain by François Villon: Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan? which Rossetti rendered "But where are the snows of yesteryear?"

Wiktionary
yesteryear

n. 1 (context poetic English) past years; time gone by; yore. 2 (context rare English) Last year.

WordNet
yesteryear

n. the time that has elapsed; "forget the past" [syn: past, past times, yore] [ant: future]

Wikipedia
Yesteryear (Star Trek: The Animated Series)

"Yesteryear" is the second episode of the first season of the animated science fiction television series Star Trek. It first aired in the NBC Saturday morning lineup on September 15, 1973, and was written by veteran Star Trek writer D. C. Fontana. "Yesteryear" marked the return of actor Mark Lenard to the role of Spock's father, Sarek.

In this episode, Enterprise First Officer Spock must travel in time to his childhood and keep his younger self from dying and being replaced by an Andorian on his ship.

Yesteryear

Yesteryear may refer to:

  • nostalgia
  • Yesteryear (quartet), a quartet that won the 1997 SPEBSQSA international competition
  • "Yesteryear (Star Trek: The Animated Series)", an episode of the animated series Star Trek
Yesteryear (quartet)

Yesteryear is a barbershop quartet that, coached by Darryl Flinn, Lance Heilmann, Larry Ajer, Greg Lyne, and other great names in barbershop won the 1997 SPEBSQSA international competition.

The original version of Yesteryear was formed in February 1984. Over the years, five personnel changes led to the championship foursome.

Usage examples of "yesteryear".

Buses, trucks, station wagons, special trains, and every manner of transport except dog sleds, brought in the Wonders of the Invisible World, Maule's Curse, the Jesus Head Trip, Ahab and His Amputation, the Horseless Headsmen, the Leaves of Grass, the Gettysburg Address, the Rosy-Fingered Dawn, the Wine-Dark Sea, Nirvana, the Net of Jewels, Here Comes Everybody, the Pisan Cantos, the Snows of Yesteryear, the Pink Dimension, the Goose in the Bottle, the Incredible Hulk, the Third Bardo, Aversion Therapy, the Irresistible Force, MC Squared, the Enclosure Acts, Perpetual Emotion, the 99-Year Lease, the Immovable Object, Spaceship Earth, the Radiocarbon Method, the Rebel Yell, the Clenched Fist, the Doomsday Machine, the Rand Scenario, the United States Commitment, the Entwives, the.

She moved in dance steps, brought the helmsman a lusty drink, lucked onto a Key West station doing the best efforts of the big bands of yesteryear, and turned it loud.

Then where the hell were you when Fury and his Hydras were doing their metapsychic vampire act back in those thrilling days of yesteryear?

The passing of the eons should have ended old impulses of hatred and destruction, On Earth, a thousand descendants of enemies of an equal number of yesteryears now lived side by side, at peace apparently forever.

And on many a long winter night in yesteryears, Tomlin or Petal had spoken of those bygone days, had told their buccoes and dammsels of the deeds of their namesakes, and of the monster they pursued.