yesterdays
USYES-tur-dayz/ˈjɛstɚdeɪz/UKYES-tuh-dayz/ˈjɛstədeɪz/
- 1Plural of yesterday.
He filled his memoir with the yesterdays of a long and busy career.
The old town seemed to hold the yesterdays of every family that ever lived there.
Note
A plural that rarely counts days. Only one day can be the day before today, so the plural leans on the figurative sense, the past itself. Its most famous use is Shakespeare's Macbeth (c. 1606): "all our yesterdayes, haue lighted Fooles / The way to dusty death." In modern writing it often travels with todays and tomorrows, laying out a life as past, present and future.
yesterdays is a form of yesterday
yesterday, noun: The day directly preceding today, counted as one day in the past. Full entry
- Forms
- yesterdayyesterdays plural
- Spelling
- yesterday → yesterdays: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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