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yester year

noun as in yesteryear

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noun as in history

noun as in yesteryear

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noun as in history

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Rossetti's "Yester-year" moreover, is an absurd and affected neologism; "Antan" is an excellent and living French word.

He again is evidently a very young man, who was but yester-year a jolly boy at the Charterhouse.

You see—well, it's this way: You know that I love you, and you know also that you care for me as for the snows of yester-year.

It was spring, in a way, but not the spring of yester-year, with its songs and laughter and high hopes.

And parting waiteth for us there,” Said he, “As it was yester-year.

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On this page you'll find 40 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to yester-year, such as: history, antiquity, yesterday, yesteryear, yore, and days gone by.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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