yesteryear
See also: yester-year
English
Alternative forms
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”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈjɛstəjɪə/
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Noun
yesteryear (plural yesteryears)
Translations
times gone by
last year
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