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.
- Seven drain east from the massifs into the sands of the Ténéré.
- The list runs anticlockwise from north east to south east Wales.
- Farther east is a state boat ramp at Barn Island near Stonington.
- 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.
- Further east is a less direct and slower route, which affords more sight-seeing possibilities.
- A little south of east the constellation of the Scorpion was fully up, with red Antares glowing in its neck; while dominating, majestic Jupiter swam, an hour and a half risen, in the east (no moon till after 11.)
- Several blocks walk along Hidalgo Avenue to the east is the former convent of San Francisco, dating from the seventeenth century, now the Rafael Coronel museum with many fine collections including a world-class collection of masks and a display of nineteenth century puppets.
- "Well, and ain't we goin 'due north just now, so that the coast lies away on our left, an' for the last three hours you've bin bearin 'away to the _right_, something like nor' and by east, if it's not nor '_east_ an' by east, the coast being all the while on yer port beam, you grampus -- that's so, ain't it?"
- It needs no labored argument to prove that the concept of plurality is here hardly less concrete than that of location in the east, and that the Yana form corresponds in feeling not so much to our They burn in the east (ardunt oriente) as to a Burn-several-east-s, it plurally burns in the east, an expression which we cannot adequately assimilate for lack of the necessary form-grooves into which to run it.