| yesterday | | |
| n. (time) | 1. yesterday | the day immediately before today.; "it was in yesterday's newspapers" |
| ~ 24-hour interval, day, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours | time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.; "two days later they left"; "they put on two performances every day"; "there are 30,000 passengers per day" |
| n. (time) | 2. yesterday | the recent past.; "yesterday's solutions are not good enough"; "we shared many yesterdays" |
| ~ past, past times, yesteryear | the time that has elapsed.; "forget the past" |
| adv. | 3. yesterday | on the day preceding today.; "yesterday the weather was beautiful" |
| adv. | 4. yesterday | in the recent past; only a short time ago.; "I was not born yesterday!" |
| past | | |
| n. (time) | 1. past, past times, yesteryear | the time that has elapsed.; "forget the past" |
| ~ time | the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past. |
| ~ yore | time long past. |
| ~ bygone, water under the bridge | past events to be put aside.; "let bygones be bygones" |
| ~ old | past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old'). |
| ~ history | the aggregate of past events.; "a critical time in the school's history" |
| ~ time immemorial, time out of mind | the distant past beyond memory. |
| ~ auld langsyne, good old days, langsyne, old times | past times remembered with nostalgia. |
| ~ yesterday | the recent past.; "yesterday's solutions are not good enough"; "we shared many yesterdays" |
| n. (time) | 2. past | a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret).; "reporters dug into the candidate's past" |
| ~ period, period of time, time period | an amount of time.; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" |
| ~ life | the period between birth and the present time.; "I have known him all his life" |
| n. (communication) | 3. past, past tense | a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past. |
| ~ tense | a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time. |
| ~ preterit, preterite | a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense. |
| adj. | 4. past | earlier than the present time; no longer current.; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year" |
| ~ noncurrent | not current or belonging to the present time. |
| ~ outgoing | leaving a place or a position.; "an outgoing steamship" |
| ~ old | of long duration; not new.; "old tradition"; "old house"; "old wine"; "old country"; "old friendships"; "old money" |
| ~ ago, agone | gone by; or in the past.; "two years ago"; "`agone' is an archaic word for `ago'" |
| ~ ancient | belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire.; "ancient history"; "ancient civilizations such as those of the Etruscans and Sumerians"; "ancient Greece" |
| ~ bygone, bypast, departed, foregone, gone | well in the past; former.; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era" |
| ~ chivalric, knightly, medieval | characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages.; "chivalric rites"; "the knightly years" |
| ~ early, other, former | belonging to the distant past.; "the early inhabitants of Europe"; "former generations"; "in other times" |
| ~ erstwhile, one-time, onetime, quondam, sometime, former, old | belonging to some prior time.; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover" |
| ~ previous, former, late | (used especially of persons) of the immediate past.; "the former president"; "our late President is still very active"; "the previous occupant of the White House" |
| ~ historic, historical | belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past.; "historic victories"; "historical (or historic) times"; "a historical character" |
| ~ last | immediately past.; "last Thursday"; "the last chapter we read" |
| ~ recent, late | of the immediate past or just previous to the present time.; "a late development"; "their late quarrel"; "his recent trip to Africa"; "in recent months"; "a recent issue of the journal" |
| ~ olden | long past.; "olden days" |
| ~ other | recently past.; "the other evening" |
| ~ prehistoric, prehistorical | belonging to or existing in times before recorded history.; "prehistoric settlements"; "prehistoric peoples" |
| ~ then | at a specific prior time.; "the then president" |
| ~ ult, ultimo | in or of the month preceding the present one.; "your letter received on the 29th ult" |
| adj. | 5. past, preceding, retiring | of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office.; "a retiring member of the board" |
| ~ outgoing | leaving a place or a position.; "an outgoing steamship" |
| adv. | 6. by, past | so as to pass a given point.; "every hour a train goes past" |
| matinee | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. matinee | a theatrical performance held during the daytime (especially in the afternoon). |
| ~ histrionics, theatrical, theatrical performance, representation | a performance of a play. |
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