eastern

IPA: ˈistɝn

adjective

Of, facing, situated in, or related to the east.
(of a wind) Blowing from the east; easterly.
(loosely) Oriental.
Of a region designated as the East by convention or from the perspective of the speaker or author.
Of the Christian churches originating in the church of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Eastern Orthodox.

Examples of "eastern" in Sentences

A Texas tornado ripped through Rice, a town outside of Dallas in eastern Texas on Sunday.
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.
David J. Rank is a working journalist in eastern Wisconsin esconced in the glacial hills between the Green Bay Packers and the Milwaukee Brewers.
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.
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.
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.
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_.
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.
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.

eastern

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