- yesterday - on the day preceding today; "yesterday the weather was beautiful"
- yesterday - in the recent past; only a short time ago; "I was not born yesterday!"
- yesterday - in the recent past; only a short time ago; "I was not born yesterday!"
- yesterday - the day immediately before today; "it was in yesterday's newspapers"
--1 is a kind of day, twenty-four hours, solar day, mean solar day
- yesterday - the recent past; "yesterday's solutions are not good enough"; "we shared many yesterdays"
--2 is a kind of past, past times, yesteryear, yore
- yesterday - the recent past; "yesterday's solutions are not good enough"; "we shared many yesterdays"