Meaning & use
yester
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Of or relating to the day, time, or period just past; belonging to yesterday (archaic and now mainly used in compounds like 'yesteryear').
See it in a sentence
The poem recalls yester joys now long faded.
Only in yester days would such customs have seemed ordinary.
A note on using this word
Yester survives today mainly in fused compounds such as 'yesteryear' and 'yesterday'; on its own it reads as deliberately old-fashioned or poetic.
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