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    YESTERYEAR

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The time that has elapsedplay

    Example:

    forget the past

    Synonyms:

    past; past times; yesteryear

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

    Hypernyms ("yesteryear" is a kind of...):

    time (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yesteryear"):

    yore (time long past)

    bygone; water under the bridge (past events to be put aside)

    old (past times (especially in the phrase 'in days of old'))

    history (the aggregate of past events)

    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)

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