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Yesterdays vs Yesterday - What's the difference?

yesterdays | yesterday |

As nouns the difference between yesterdays and yesterday

is that yesterdays is while yesterday is the day immediately before today; one day ago.

As an adverb yesterday is

on the day before today.

yesterdays

English

Noun

(head)
  • *
  • And all our yesterdays have lighted fools / The way to dusty death.

    yesterday

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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
  • All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= 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.}}

    Usage notes

    * The term yesterdays is unusual and often poetic for the recent past, e.g. "all our yesterdays have come back to haunt us."

    Derived terms

    * born yesterday

    Adverb

    (-)
  • On the day before today
  • As soon as possible
  • Synonyms

    * the last day (Ireland )

    Antonyms

    * tomorrow

    See also

    * hesternal * today * tomorrow night * tonight * last night * nudiustertian English pro-forms English temporal location adverbs 1000 English basic words