Synonyms for yester years
- history
- antiquity
- yesterday
- yesteryear
- yore
- days gone by
- former times
- good old days
- long ago
- old lang syne
- old times
- olden days
- time immemorial
- times past
- years ago
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Antonyms for yester years
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WORD ORIGIN
coined 1870 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti from yester(day) + year to translate French antan (from Vulgar Latin *anteannum "the year before") in a refrain by François Villon: Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan? which Rossetti rendered "But where are the snows of yesteryear?"
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