day before yesterday
Preceding yesterday's date
The day before yesterday is two days ago—the day immediately preceding yesterday.
The phrase functions as a single time expression: I saw her just the day before yesterday.
It parallels "day after tomorrow" for two days hence.
- recentOf the near past
- precedingComing before in order
- pastTime already gone
- past eventsHappenings already concluded
- days gone byPrevious periods of time
old times · recollection · former · back in time · hindsight · looking back · memory · calendar systems · flashback · recently · lunar cycles · déjà vu · time flies · antepenultimate · the other day · not long ago · nostalgia · reminiscence
temporal direction from present
day before yesterdayday after tomorrow
Two days hence
in two days · tomorrow · soon