yesteryear

[Erin McKean]

NOAD2 gives "[poetic/literary] last year or the recent past, esp. as
nostalgically recalled."

Erin

Mark A. Mandel wrote:
> Mark Spahn <mspahn at LOCALNET.COM> wrote:
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> What do most Americans understand by "yesteryear"?
> According to a desktop dictionary, "yesteryear" means
> "last year".  But I have always understood "yesteryear"
> to mean "times of long ago, back in history".
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> As have I.
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> m a m