EAST COAST • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of East Coast

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ist koʊst/ Listen

East Coast

noun

The eastern seaboard of the United States (especially the strip between Boston and Washington D.C.).

See images of 'East Coast'

Etymology of 'East Coast'

Share |

"East coast" Quotes from Famous Books

... west coast are mostly of the round-headed type (brachycephalic), while those of the east coast have been of the long-headed type (dolichocephalic). The two types have mingled in their migration southward until we have the long heads and the round or broad heads extending the whole {187} length of the two continents. Intermingled with these are those of the middle derivative type, ...

— History of Human Society • Frank W. Blackmar

... few large drops fell. Heavy rain at El-'Akabah and on east coast. Sand-veil over Sinaitic shore. Six p.m., wind gusty. Rain-clouds all over coast. Wind becoming warm. At 1.15 a.m. (February 11), terrible rush and fall of rain. Wind westing. Mild at first. Five a.m., hard Gharbi, threatening Azyab. All mist—could ...

— The Land of Midian, Vol. 2 • Richard Burton

... it is clear that there was an open trade between the different parts of India. References to the sea seemed to prove that a coasting trade existed. Maritime trade was probably in the hands of the Arabs. The people of the East Coast were more venturesome sailors than those of the West. The Hindus certainly made settlements in Java. There are ten nations in India which differ from each other as much as do the nations of Europe, and also resemble each other in much the same degree. The physical contrast ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XII. - Modern History • Arthur Mee

... said, "we can return for our gypsy dresses, and then make for the east coast. We have put the king's enemies off the scent. I trust that when we may get across the water we may hear that he ...

— Friends, though divided - A Tale of the Civil War • G. A. Henty

... pleasant men they were, and how hard it seemed that they should be priests and Croats! They told us all about the city of Spalato, where they lived, and gave us such a glowing account of Dalmatian poets and poetry that we began to doubt at last if the seat of literature were not somewhere on the east coast of the Adriatic; and I hope we left them the impression that the literary centre of the world was not a thousand miles from the horse-car ...

— Italian Journeys • William Dean Howells

More quotes...