yestertime
English
Etymology
From yester- + time.
Noun
yestertime (plural yestertimes)
- Time previous to the present; the past.
Adverb
yestertime (not comparable)
- In times past, at a prior time; in the past.
- 1920, Yoné Noguchi, Seen & unseen, or, Monologues of a homeless snail:
- And at last I came back to me, after sailing on surgeful waves; at this moment, between the Present and the Future, the Past and the Present, — forgetting what the world was, yestertime,—forgetting what I was, yestertime.
- 1920, Yoné Noguchi, Seen & unseen, or, Monologues of a homeless snail:
Synonyms
- yestertide