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East

noun

The cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees. Synonyms: due east, E, eastward.

The countries of Asia. Synonym: Orient.

The region of the United States lying to the north of the Ohio River and to the east of the Mississippi River. Synonym: eastern United States.

The direction corresponding to the eastward cardinal compass point.

A location in the eastern part of a country, region, or city.

adjective

Situated in or facing or moving toward the east. Antonym: west.

adverb

To, toward, or in the east. "Located east of Rome"

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"East" Quotes from Famous Books

... you know our dear Margaret will not be long with us? She intends to join a community in the East End of London, and to devote herself for the remainder of her life to the service of the poor. I could not help crying a little when she told me this; but she only smiled and said that she was not ...

— Wee Wifie • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... the Gulf of Mexico, it carries a freight of caloric towards the North Atlantic. Owing partly to the diurnal motion of the Earth on its axis, its flow trends towards the east; hence its warm waters embrace our favoured coasts, and ameliorate our climate, while the eastern sea-board of North America is left, in winter, to ...

— The Ocean and its Wonders • R.M. Ballantyne

... 1905) Forest Song The Bee Outside the Carlton The Pater of the Cannon Fleet Street Nightmare To a Nobleman becoming Socialist St. George-in-the-East ...

— Eyes of Youth - A Book of Verse by Padraic Colum, Shane Leslie, A.O. • Various

... formerly did about the great Steam Line from and to Liverpool and Halifax. But to proceed seriously. Did his Grace, let it be asked, when pointing to our North-Western boundary line, look forward at that time to the shores of the Pacific as being "the end of the West and the beginning of the East?" Did his Grace's imagination picture to his mind's eye swarms of human beings from Halifax, from New Brunswick, from Quebec, from Montreal, from Byetown, from Kingston, from Toronto, from Hamilton, the Red River Settlement, &c. &c. &c., rushing ...

— A Letter from Major Robert Carmichael-Smyth to His Friend, the Author of 'The Clockmaker' • Robert Carmichael-Smyth

... ordered the Texan, "while me an' Win hunt up the spring. He said it was on the east side where there was a lot of loose rock along the edge of the bull pine. We'll make the camp there, too, where the wood an' water will ...

— The Texan - A Story of the Cattle Country • James B. Hendryx

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