YESTERYEAR


Meaning of YESTERYEAR in English

/yes"teuhr year", -year'/ , n.

1. last year.

2. the recent years; time not long past.

adv.

3. during time not long past.

[ YESTER- + YEAR; appar. introduced by D.G. Rossetti (1870) to render MF antan (Villon) ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .