Yesterday means the day before today. We use it to talk about things that happened one day ago.
I saw her yesterday at school.
Yesterday was cold and rainy.
Yesterday can be an adverb to say when something happened. It means 'on the day before today.'
She came yesterday to my house.
We met yesterday at the park.
Yesterday as an adjective means related to the past or no longer current. It describes things from earlier times.
That is a yesterday problem for us.
He lives in a yesterday world.
Used idiomatically, 'yesterday' means something old-fashioned or not important anymore. People say this to show things from the past.
That idea is yesterday news now.
His views are all yesterday thinking.
Yesterday can be a name or title, for example of songs, books, or movies. It refers to the word used as a proper noun.
I listened to Yesterday by The Beatles.
Yesterday is a famous song title.
In computing, 'yesterday' refers to the date before today’s date in systems and logs. It is used to track or display past data.
The system shows yesterday as 2024-04-25.
Yesterday's log files were deleted.
'Yesterday' can be used poetically to mean recent past or memories. It often appears in stories or poetry to express time gone by.
Yesterday is a memory we keep close.
Yesterday’s dreams still guide us.
