yesteryear

名词 n. 副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /ˈjɛstəjɪə/    美 /ˈjɛstərjɪər/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Past years; time gone by; yore. countable,poetic,uncountable
    — To be old here, is to be respectable, and time-honored is the epithet most coveted. You see no sign of the doings of yesterday or yesteryear: the new is careful of obtruding itself, and comes into the world under matronage of the old.
  2. Last year. countable,rare,uncountable
副词 adv.
  1. In past years. not-comparable,poetic
    — Was it yesteryear or centuries ago that the Orient Express thundered over that narrow, glistening channel and linked the Golden Horn to the Seine?

词形变化

yesteryears plural yester-year alternative yester-year alternative

词汇关系

近义词
yestertide
衍生词
where are the snows of yesteryear

词源

词源 1
From yester- + year.
词源 2
From yester- + year.
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