YESTERYEAR
Dictionary entry overview: What does yesteryear mean?
• YESTERYEAR (noun)
The noun YESTERYEAR has 1 sense:
1. the time that has elapsed
Familiarity information: YESTERYEAR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• YESTERYEAR (noun)
Meaning:
The time that has elapsed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
past; past times; yesteryear; yore
Context example:
forget the past
Hypernyms ("yesteryear" is a kind of...):
time (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yesteryear"):
bygone; water under the bridge (past events to be put aside)
old (past times (especially in the phrase 'in days of old'))
history (the aggregate of past events)
time immemorial; time out of mind (the distant past beyond memory)
auld langsyne; good old days; langsyne; old times (past times remembered with nostalgia)
yesterday (the recent past)
