yesterday
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the day immediately before today
it was in yesterday's newspapers
Types & categories
- day hypernym
Sense 2 adverb
on the day preceding today
yesterday the weather was beautiful
Sense 3 noun
the recent past
yesterday's solutions are not good enough
Types & categories
- past hypernym
Sense 4 adverb
in the recent past; only a short time ago
I was not born yesterday!
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | day |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | past |