where are the snows of yesteryear
/ˌ(h)wɛəɹ‿ɑɹ ðə ˈsnoʊz‿əv ˈjɛstəɹˌjɪ(ə)ɹ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.46 in modern English
49
Scrabble Score
28
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Where is Echo, beheld of no man, / Only heard on river and mere,— / She whose beauty was more than human? … / But where are the snows of yester-year?"
- "It is in this, also, that he rises out of himself into the higher spheres of art. So, in the ballade by which he is best known, he rings the changes on names that once stood for beautiful and queenly women, and are now no more than letters and a legend. "Where are the snows of yester year?" runs the burden."
- "[“][W]here is the Ocala Boy?” / “‘Where are the snows of yester-year?’” laughed Rhett, as he opened the gate and passed under the great trees in the enclosure of Mrs. Forceythe’s grounds."
- "Pathetic as its passing is, one cannot honestly regret the old school. I was looking last night at the programme of my very first hall, and received a terrible shock to my time-sense. Where are the snows of yesteryear? Where are the entertainers of 1895?"
- "It seems to me that it isn't these little acts and little connections we make in our lives that matter so very much. They pass away, and where are they? Where … Where are the snows of yesteryear? … It's what endures through one's life that matters; my own life matters to me, in its long continuance and development."
- "Wo sind die Tränen von gestern abend? / Wo ist der Schnee vom vergangenen Jahr?"
Etymology
From the poem “The Ballad of Dead Ladies” by the English poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) (see the quotation below), an 1869 translation of the line “Mais où sont les neiges d’antan” from “Ballade des dames du temps jadis” (“Ballade of Ladies of Time Gone By”, written 1461) by the French poet François Villon (c. 1431 – p. 1463).
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌ(h)wɛəɹ‿ɑɹ ðə ˈsnoʊz‿əv ˈjɛstəɹˌjɪ(ə)ɹ/
- British English: /ˌ(h)wɛəɹ‿ɑː ðə ˈsnəʊz‿əv ˈjɛstəjɪə/