Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Last night.
from The Century Dictionary.
- On the night last past.
- noun The night last past.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The last night; the night last past.
- adverb On the last night.
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- adverb archaic
Last night .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
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The rougher animal, raising himself on his tail and fins, thus addressed the astonished man in the dialect spoken in these islands:—You deprived me of her whom I was to make my companion; and it was only yesternight that I discovered her outer garment, the loss of which obliged her to be your wife.
FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010
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The rougher animal, raising himself on his tail and fins, thus addressed the astonished man in the dialect spoken in these islands:—You deprived me of her whom I was to make my companion; and it was only yesternight that I discovered her outer garment, the loss of which obliged her to be your wife.
FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010
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The rougher animal, raising himself on his tail and fins, thus addressed the astonished man in the dialect spoken in these islands:--You deprived me of her whom I was to make my companion; and it was only yesternight that I discovered her outer garment, the loss of which obliged her to be your wife.
The Seal Maiden elena maria vidal 2009
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The rougher animal, raising himself on his tail and fins, thus addressed the astonished man in the dialect spoken in these islands:--You deprived me of her whom I was to make my companion; and it was only yesternight that I discovered her outer garment, the loss of which obliged her to be your wife.
Archive 2009-08-01 elena maria vidal 2009
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“Listen, O my brother, to what my sire told me yesternight of the calamity which hath betided him in the withering of his crops before their time, by reason of the rarity of rain and the sore sorrow that is fallen on this city.”
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When the morning morrowed the girl came back and said to him, My lady salameth to thee and asks how thou hast passed yesternight; for she hath not tasted sleep by reason of her heart being taken up with thee.
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They rejoined, ‘Yes! it was we took thy goods yesternight and carried off thy friend and her who was singing to him.’
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So he sat down and the King asked him, “Knowest thou who talked with thee yesternight?”
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Ho, thou the Wazir,171 in our talk yesternight thou toldest me that thou hadst a device whereby thou couldst defend us from the malice of the King of Hind.
silas commented on the word yesternight
HORATIO: I saw him once; he was a goodly king.
HAMLET: He was a man, take him for all in all: I shall not look upon his like again.
HORATIO: My lord, I think I saw him yesternight.
HAMLET: Saw who?
HORATIO: My lord, the king your father.
~ Hamlet/Shakespeare ~
September 17, 2009
trauco commented on the word yesternight
HORATIO: I saw him once; he was a goodly king.
HAMLET: He was a man, take him for all in all: I shall not look upon his like again.
HORATIO: My lord, I think I saw him yesternight.
HAMLET: Say what?
HORATIO: My lord, the king your father.
~ Kidding ~
October 28, 2009