Forever vs Yesterday - What's the difference?
forever | yesterday |
(duration) for all time, for all eternity; for an infinite amount of time.
* 1839 , Denison Olmsted, A Compendium of Astronomy Page 95
(duration, colloquial) for a very long time, 'an' eternity.
(frequency) constantly or frequently.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
An extremely long time.
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* 2007 , Ruth O'Callaghan, Where acid has etched
(colloquial) a mythical time in the infinite future that will never come.
The day immediately before today; one day ago.
* {{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Hughes Mearns)
, title=
, passage=Yesterday , upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away …}}
The (recent) past, often disparaging.
* 1606 (William Shakespeare), (Macbeth) , 5.5
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= On the day before today
As soon as possible
As adverbs the difference between forever and yesterday
is that forever is (duration) for all time, for all eternity; for an infinite amount of time while yesterday is on the day before today.As nouns the difference between forever and yesterday
is that forever is an extremely long time while yesterday is the day immediately before today; one day ago.forever
English
Alternative forms
* for everAdverb
(-)- ''I shall love you forever .
- Secondly, When a body is once in motion it will continue to move forever , unless something stops it. When a ball is struck on the surface of the earth, the friction of the earth and the resistance of the air soon stop its motion.
- ''We had to wait forever to get inside.
- ''You are forever nagging me.
- Early in his boyhood he had learned to form ropes by twisting and tying long grasses together, and with these he was forever tripping Tublat or attempting to hang him from some overhanging branch.
Usage notes
* In the United Kingdom and most of the Commonwealth, the spelling for ever'' may be used instead of ''forever'' for the senses "for all time" and "for a long time". In Canada and the United States, generally only ''forever is used, regardless of sense.Synonyms
* always * continually * eternally * evermore * for good * forevermore * for ever more * incessantly * until Kingdom comeDerived terms
* forevernessNoun
(en noun)- In the airport, holiday lovers kiss, mouth forevers , the usual argot betrays you. Desire makes love dull.
- ''Sure, I'd be happy to meet with you on the 12th of forever .
yesterday
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Noun
(en noun)- All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday , of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.}}