[ noun ] the time that has elapsed <noun.time> forget the past
Yesteryear \Yes"ter*year`\, n. The year last past; last year.
So we believe that the addition of Joe will cause them to come home." Frank says NBC, in seeking the top "Today" ratings of yesteryear, is hoping to "recapture some of that warmth and family appeal" the show once had.
Crammed into tiny seats, unable to move and urged to keep safety belts on at all times, we were served the pitiful snacks that have replaced those unwholesome meals of yesteryear.
"He's still of that school of yesteryear when an IBM salesman could sell a refrigerator to an Eskimo," notes Ulric Weil, an analyst affiliated with Gartner Group Inc.
When Bush sent Congress his 419-page epistle on the economy Tuesday, all the hits from yesteryear were playing once again: _Tax cuts to stimulate growth.
Any disciplining of a player by his captain or team manager would have been dispensed later, off the field. But cricket captains nowadays are sometimes less commanding figures than of yesteryear.
But it is more like the IMF programs of yesteryear than the IMF programs of today.
Norville, who has noisily suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous critics ever since Jane Pauley made way for her on "Today," starts things with a quick look at memorable commercials of yesteryear.
The nuclear family of yesteryear has in many cases splintered. Today, more than half of mothers hold down jobs outside the home. Kids, too, are busier than ever with afterschool sports and other activities.
An array of celebrities _ including yesteryear rock 'n' roll stars Fabian, Frankie Avalon and Bobby Rydell _ took part in the gala benefit performance to help raise money for the theater's endowment fund.
But slots are the rage with today's know-nothing gamblers, who are a far cry from the casino clientele of yesteryear.
But Mandela didn't forget the black heroes of yesteryear.
Hal Holbrook, representing the "good" Wall Street of yesteryear, pops up periodically to mumble something about the "fundamentals" and "looking into the abyss."
Sometimes old research, like yesteryear's fashions, makes a comeback, or at least is done up in new packages, says the Agriculture Department.
Woolworth's rummage-sale prices allowed the homemaker of yesteryear to outfit a kitchen with gadgetry from potato mashers to frying pans for just a few dollars.
"The old mothers of yesteryear are very different from the yuppie-types who put off having babies because of careers," Dr. Hobbins said.
Classic gold cufflinks are now prefered to the frivolous Mickey Mouse links of yesteryear.
We sure as hell don't need anything else like that again." "We're not going back to the thrilling days of yesteryear and that's probably good," said Mr. Weinstein, the economist.