yesteryear

yes·ter·year  (ystr-yîr)

n.

1. The year before the present year.

2. Time past; yore.

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yester·year adv.

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yesteryear Formal or literary

Noun

last year or the past in general

Adverb

during last year or the past in general

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

yesteryear - the time that has elapsed; "forget the past" past, past times time - the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past yore - time long past bygone, water under the bridge - past events to be put aside; "let bygones be bygones" old - past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old') history - the aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the school's history" 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; "yesterday's solutions are not good enough"; "we shared many yesterdays"