Home › Words › Y › yesterdawnyesterdawnyesterdawn means at dawn on yesterday.EtymologyFrom yester- + dawn.advAt dawn on yesterday.e.g.“But, now I know you love the lass, I'll say I saw her yesterdawn as blooming as her name.” — 1905, Weymer Jay Mills, Caroline of Courtlandt Street, page 214:nounThe dawn of yesterday.e.g.“They come to me from the years agone, Like echoes from far away :Like sunbeams that faded at yesterdawn, Like the glory of yesterday.” — 1904, Religious Telescope - Volume 70, page 1226:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.yester 74% match — Yesterday. vs yesterdawn →yestern 74% match — Of or pertaining to yesterday. vs yesterdawn →yestermorn 72% match — During the morning of yesterday; yesterday morning. vs yesterdawn →ereyesterday 70% match — On the day before yesterday. vs yesterdawn →yestermorrow 70% match — A day in the sequence of days from past to future, emphasizing the connection between past and future events. vs yesterdawn →daydawn 69% match — Synonym of dawn. vs yesterdawn →yesterdayness 68% match — The property of being, or seeming to be, in the past. vs yesterdawn →yesternoon 67% match — Yesterday at noon. vs yesterdawn →