different between yesteryear vs yestereve

English

Alternative forms

• yester-year

Etymology

Compound of yester- +? year. Coined by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in 1869 in his translation "Ballad Of Dead Ladies", to translate Middle French antan (“last year”) (in Ballad 1 of François Villon's Testament).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?j?st?j??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?j?st?rj??r/

Noun

yesteryear (countable and uncountable, plural yesteryears)

1. (poetic) Past years; time gone by; yore.
2. (rare) Last year.

Synonyms

• (time gone by): foretime, yestertide; see also Thesaurus:the past

Translations

See also

• yesterday
• bygone

English

Etymology

From Middle English yester even, yistreven, alteration of yestereven (“last night, yesterday evening”), from Old English ?iestran?fen (“yesterday evening”), equivalent to yester- +? even (“evening”).

Noun

yestereve (plural yestereves)

1. (archaic) Yesterday evening.

Synonyms

• yestereven
• yesterevening
• yestreen
• last night
• yesternight
• yesterday night

Adverb

yestereve (not comparable)

1. (During) yesterday evening.

Synonyms

• yestereven
• yesterevening
• yestreen
• last night
• yesternight
• yesterday night

Related terms

• yesterday
• yesteryear