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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

yestertime en · ADV

Etymology

From yester- + time.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) In times past, at a prior time; in the past.
    • And at last I came back to me, after sailing on surgeful waves; at this moment, between the Present and the Future, the Past and the Present, — forgetting what the world was, yestertime,—forgetting what I was, yestertime. 1920, Yoné Noguchi, Seen & unseen, or, Monologues of a homeless snail:

Synonyms

yestertide · beforehand

yestertime en · NOUN

Etymology

From yester- + time.

Meanings

  1. Time previous to the present; the past.

Forms

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Synonyms

foretime · yestertide