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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.

adverb

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

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"East" Quotes from Famous Books

... his expedition to Port Natal; reading over all the memoranda which they had collected, and satisfactorily proving that the descendants of the Europeans then existing could not by any possibility be from those who had been lost in the Grosvenor East-Indiaman. ...

— The Mission; or Scenes in Africa • Captain Frederick Marryat

... artisan and musician from Seattle who grew up back East in an upper-middle class dysfunctional family. She was in her late twenties. She had been sexually abused by an older brother, was highly reactive, and had never been able to communicate honestly with anyone except her lesbian lover (maybe, about ...

— How and When to Be Your Own Doctor • Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon

... below, we in a low tone had our debate on the question, and saw too how the men gathered in knots, and talked in whispers and watched the barque. And to us all one thing was evident, that could our lads only get a chance at the pigtailed, ruffianly scum of the east coast, it would go ...

— Blue Jackets - The Log of the Teaser • George Manville Fenn

... morning, 2nd of August, the Armada lay between Portland Bill and St. Albans' Head, when the wind shifted to the north-east, and gave the Spaniards the weather-gage. The English did their beat to get to windward, but the Duke, standing close into the land with the whole Armada, maintained his advantage. The English then went about, making a tack seaward, and were ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... to Hooker about marine botany? He may be able to help you as soon as X. the accursed (may jackasses sit upon his grandmother's grave, as we say in the East) leaves him alone. ...

— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 2 • Leonard Huxley

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