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yore

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of YORE

the events or experience of former times <my favorite stories are about gallant knights and fair maidens in the days of yore>

Synonyms auld lang syne, history, yesterday, yesteryear, yore

Related Words bygone; flashback; annals, chronicle, record; memoir; antiquity, long ago

Near Antonyms by-and-by, future, futurity, hereafter, offing, tomorrow; moment, now, present, today

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