(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
You use ~ to refer to the day before today.
She left ~...
Yesterday she announced that she is quitting her job.
ADV: ADV with cl
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Yesterday is also a noun.
In ~’s games, Switzerland beat the United States two-one.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
You can refer to the past, especially the recent past, as ~.
The worker of today is different from the worker of ~.
N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl