Yesterdayとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈjɛstədeɪ/, /ˈjɛstədi/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈjɛstɹdeɪ/, /ˈjɛstɹdi/
• (dated, Southern 米国発音 folk speech) IPA: /ˈjɪstɹdeɪ/, /ˈjɪstɹdi/
• ハイフネーション: yes‧ter‧day

名詞

yesterday (plural yesterdays)

1. The day immediately before today; one day ago.

   Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow.

   Yesterday was rainy, but by this morning it had begun to snow.

   • 1899, Hughes Mearns, Antigonish:

     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 …

   • 1965, Paul McCartney, “Yesterday”, in Help!:

     Yesterday / All my troubles seemed so far away / Now it looks as though they're here to stay / Oh, I believe in yesterday

2. (figuratively) The past, often in terms of being outdated.

   yesterday's technology

   The worker of today is different from that of yesterday.

   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:

     All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.

   • 2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:

     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.

使用する際の注意点

• The plural yesterdays is unusual and often poetic for the recent past, e.g. “all our yesterdays have come back to haunt us”.
• While pronunciations with /ˈjɪ-/ are now dialectal, they were formerly found in the standard language. For example, writer and orthoepist Thomas Sheridan prescribed such a pronunciation in his work.

派生語

副詞

yesterday (not comparable)

1. On the day before today.

   Synonym: (Ireland) the last day

   Antonym: tomorrow

   I started to watch the video yesterday, but could only finish it this evening.

2. (informal) As soon as possible.

   I want this done yesterday!

   I need it yesterday!

関連する語

参考

• ereyesterday
• hesternal
• last night
• nudiustertian
• today
• tomorrow night
• tonight

参照

語源

From 古期英語 ġiestrandæġ; equivalent to yester- +‎ day.

発音

• IPA: /ˈjɛstərdæi/, /ˈjistərdæi/, /ˈjustərdæi/

副詞

yesterday

1. On the preceding day
2. At another preceding point in time; in the past

名詞

yesterday

1. The preceding day; yesterday
2. A preceding point in time; the past

派生した語

• English: yesterday
• Middle Scots: ȝisterday, ȝesterday
  • Scots: yesterday
• Yola: yersthei, yerstei, yerstey

参照

• “yester-dai, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 20 March 2018.