yesterday (n.)

  1. the day immediately before today; it was in yesterday's newspapers'

  2. the recent past; yesterday's solutions are not good enough; we shared many yesterdays'

    yesterday (adv.)

  1. on the day preceding today; yesterday the weather was beautiful'

  2. in the recent past; only a short time ago; I was not born yesterday!'

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