yester-millennium

English

Alternative forms

• yestermillennium

Etymology

From yester- +‎ millennium.

Adverb

yester-millennium (not comparable)

1. (rare) From a millennium ago; from a previous millennium.
   • 2001, James Martin, Calgary, The Unknown City, page 9:

     The Unknown City has all your old faves from yester-millennium (tunnels, scandals, gossip), plus mucho new content: grouchy three-eyed mystics, vanishing modernist architecture, nutty mascots, lip-synching drag queens, and so much more.

   • 2003, Bert Roebben, L. van der Tuin, Practical Theology and the Interpretation of Crossing Boundaries, Essays in Honour of Professor M.P.J. Van Knippenberg, page 135:

     After all: those who are leaders in religious matters stand amidst the con- creteness of today and although the ethical answers of yesterday, yesteryear, yester century and yester millennium can and in many cases will be inspirational, they are no blue print.

   • 2012, Benjamin J. Myers, The Spiral Horizon, Book 6:

     'Oh, I know,' fussed Lemuel, 'there's all that primary warp nonsense, but that's so yester-millennium, Mevrad.

   • 2016, Jim Warren, Listen to Your Garden, Hidden Dimensions:

     The repeat worm plague that came on Lotus Island in a way resembled the plague of locusts in old Egypt and Kindersley from yester-millennium and yesteryear.

See also

• yestermonth
• yesteryear