yesternight
The previous evening
Yesternight means last night—the night just past.
The word is archaic or poetic, rarely encountered outside historical texts or deliberately old-fashioned speech: Yesternight I dreamed a troubling dream.
It parallels yesterday but specifies the nighttime hours.
Of earlier times
- antiquatedOld and outdated
- obsoleteNo longer in use
- oldenOf a distant past
- datedOld-fashioned or courted
quaint · vintage · yore · forsooth · hitherto · whence · thence · erstwhile
Reflected solar radiance, nocturnal
- starsLuminous celestial bodies
- darknessTotal absence of light
- midnightTwelve o'clock at night
- nightfallOnset of darkness
twilight · dreams · sleep · starlight · eventide · gloaming · slumber · repose
Late day period
bygone
Of earlier times
- antiquatedOld and outdated
- obsoleteNo longer in use
- oldenOf a distant past
dated · quaint · vintage · yore · forsooth · hitherto · whence · thence · erstwhile · prithee
moonlight
Reflected solar radiance, nocturnal
nightfall · twilight · dreams · sleep · starlight · eventide · gloaming · slumber · repose · nocturne
evening
Late day period
verse
Metered poetic passage
lyric · elegy · stanza · rhyme · Shakespearean · Elizabethan · literary · pastoral · romantic · evocative