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Yester vs Yestern - What's the difference?

yester | yestern |

As adverbs the difference between yester and yestern

is that yester is (archaic) yesterday while yestern is yesterday.

As adjectives the difference between yester and yestern

is that yester is (archaic) last; last past; next before; of or pertaining to yesterday while yestern is (archaic|rare) of or pertaining to yesterday.

As nouns the difference between yester and yestern

is that yester is (archaic) yesterday while yestern is yesterday.

yester

English

Adverb

(-)
  • (archaic) Yesterday.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (archaic) Last; last past; next before; of or pertaining to yesterday.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) Yesterday.

    • Derived terms

    (terms derived from yester) * yesterday * yestereve * yester-hour * yester-minute * yestermonth * yestermorn * yesternight * yesternoon * yesterweek * yesteryear

    yestern

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (archaic, rare) Of or pertaining to yesterday.
  • * 1868 , John Conington (translator), The Iliad of Homer
    • Argos, I fear, will pay us soon again
    Her yestern debt
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1970 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Trumbull Stickney , title=Dramatic Verses , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Ardent Media , isbn=9780839818724 , page=35 , passage=For men born of yesterday are yestern }}

    Adverb

    (-)
  • yesterday
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1949 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Lionel Trilling , title=Matthew Arnold , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Taylor & Francis , isbn=9780049280182 , page=169 , passage="F. Newman's book I saw yestern at our ouse," Arnold writes to Clough. "He seems to have written himself down an hass. }}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • yesterday
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1839 , year_published=2006 , edition=Digitized , editor=Montagu Montagu , author= Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller , title=The Song of the Bell, and other Poems , chapter=Knight Toggenburg citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=85 , passage=Yestern was the day of hail, … }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1840 , year_published=2012 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=Amelia Lane , title=The Fortress: An Historical Tale of the Fifteenth Century , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=305 , passage=Yestern , who was there could compete with me in strength? }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1977 , year_published=2009 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=Bill Reed , title=Dogod , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn=9780170051460 , page=76 , passage=For this day ought to promise not so much mulch as yesterday or all the other yesterns all back in a row of boredowndom. }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=2011 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Glenn P. Wolfe , title=Mneme's Place: Book One , chapter= citation , genre=fiction , publisher=iUniverse , isbn=9781462017157 , page=22 , passage=Jestern, was Joyce's yestern . }}