Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Situated in, toward, or facing the east.
- adjective Coming from the east.
- adjective Native to or growing in the east.
- adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of eastern regions or the East.
- adjective Of or relating to the Eastern Church.
- adjective Of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated toward the east or on the part toward the east: as, the eastern side of a town or church; the eastern shore of a bay.
- Going toward the east, or in the direction of east: as, an eastern route.
- Coming from the east; easterly.
- Of or pertaining to the east; Oriental; being or occurring in the east: as, eastern countries; eastern manners; an eastern tour.
- noun A person living in or belonging to the eastern part of a country or region; specifically, one belonging to one of the countries lying east of Europe; an Oriental.
- noun [capitalized] A member of the orthodox Oriental or Greek Church: in contradistinction from a Latin or Western.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Situated or dwelling in the east; oriental
- adjective Going toward the east, or in the direction of east.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, facing, situated in, or related to the
east - adjective of a wind
blowing from the east;easterly - adjective loosely
oriental
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lying toward or situated in the east
- adjective from the east; used especially of winds
- adjective of or characteristic of eastern regions of the United States
- adjective relating to or characteristic of regions of eastern parts of the world
- adjective lying in or toward the east
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It seems then to me impossible to deny that the Ὀττοροκοροι is the same, and points out the most eastern land of the old north, now in or near Shen-si, the first home of the Chinese; to me the _eastern_ boundary of _Paradise_.
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State Director for IUE, I continued my involvement in the Civil Rights movement, in the political movement, and they were involved with migrants and that is when I first became involved with what we call the eastern stream of migrants, but not very heavily involved.
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Even fancy dishes, such as Oysters Kirkpatrick, would be better if made of the eastern oyster, not what they call the eastern oyster here, for that is a misnomer, but the oysters that grow in the Atlantic Ocean.
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For geographical and political reasons, even if located on the 169th meridian west, Big Diomede Island is included in what we call the eastern part of the world.
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For geographical and political reasons, even if located on the 169th meridian west, Big Diomede Island is included in what we call the eastern part of the world.
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As we have already remarked, one hemisphere of the earth (whether we divide the sphere through the equator or through the meridian of Teneriffe) has a much greater expansion of elevated land than the opposite one: these two vast ocean-girt tracts of land, which we term the eastern and western, or the Old and New Continents, present, however, conjointly with the most striking contrasts of configuration and position of their axes, some similarities of form, especially with reference to the mutual relations of their opposite coasts.
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Wanat was a horrific insurgent attack on a U.S. combat outpost in eastern Afghanistan last summer that left nine soldiers dead and 27 wounded.
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A Texas tornado ripped through Rice, a town outside of Dallas in eastern Texas on Sunday.
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David J. Rank is a working journalist in eastern Wisconsin esconced in the glacial hills between the Green Bay Packers and the Milwaukee Brewers.
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The U.S. military is distributing pamphlets in eastern Afghanistan in an effort to find a soldier who has been missing for more than two weeks, the military said Thursday.
michaelt42 commented on the word eastern
In UK place names eastern sometimes gets changed to Aston (east town). Steeple Aston (Oxfordshire), many other *** Astons and 37 Aston ***s (eg, Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire) are listed in the 2012 AA Greater Britain and Ireland Road Atlas.
April 3, 2012