Associations to the word «Yesterday»

Wiktionary

YESTERDAY, noun. The day immediately before today; one day ago.
YESTERDAY, noun. The (recent) past, often disparaging.
YESTERDAY, adverb. On the day before today
YESTERDAY, adverb. As soon as possible
YESTERDAY NIGHT, noun. Last night.

Dictionary definition

YESTERDAY, noun. The day immediately before today; "it was in yesterday's newspapers".
YESTERDAY, noun. The recent past; "yesterday's solutions are not good enough"; "we shared many yesterdays".
YESTERDAY, adverb. On the day preceding today; "yesterday the weather was beautiful".
YESTERDAY, adverb. In the recent past; only a short time ago; "I was not born yesterday!".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats