east
IPA: ˈist
noun
- One of the four principal compass points, specifically 90°, conventionally directed to the right on maps; the direction of the rising sun at an equinox.
- The eastern region or area; the inhabitants thereof.
- A personification of the wind from the east.
- The Eastern world; the regions, primarily situated in the Eastern Hemisphere, whose culture is derived from Arabia, India, Persia or China.
- The Eastern Bloc; the eastern countries of Europe.
- (historical) the Soviet Union and its socialist allies during the Cold War.
- The eastern states of the United States.
- The eastern part of any region.
- A civil parish of Kings County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
- A surname.
adjective
- Situated or lying in or towards the east; eastward.
- (meteorology) Blowing (as wind) from the east.
- Of or pertaining to the east; eastern.
- From the East; oriental.
- (ecclesiastical) Designating, or situated in, the liturgical east.
adverb
- towards the east; eastwards
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Examples of "east" in Sentences
- It is elongated on the east and the west.
- They emigrated to the north, south, east, and west.
- The Atlantic Ocean surrounds the west, the north and the east.
- Beacon Hill is to the south, and the North End is to the east.
- The mountain valleys dominate the south, the east and the west.
- The list runs anticlockwise from north east to south east Wales.
- Hummock Island is almost long in a north west to south east direction.
- The Tarn river runs along the border of the town by the south, east and west.
- They are the south window in the vestry and the east window in the north aisle.
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