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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

... he had dropped into the seat by Elizabeth and was gurgling wordlessly. A massive lady, who had entered the train at East Moriches in company with three children and a cat in a basket, eyed him with a curiosity that she made no attempt to conceal. Two girls in a neighbouring seat leaned forward eagerly to hear all. This ...

— Uneasy Money • P.G. Wodehouse

... his subtlety and love of humour; he is a combination of the artistic, with a distinct and clear sense of beauty, and of the scientific, with speculations and theories of race and heredity—who would as lief draw East-End types for the sake of their "character," and would look at a queer face more for the interest that is in it than for its comicality. If Mr. du Maurier's sense of beauty is strong, so is his appreciation of ugliness; and if you take down any of the volumes of Punch—that ...

— The History of "Punch" • M. H. Spielmann

... bar silver is in the north cache; you can find it by the trend of the east hummock, ten fathoms south of the black crag with the ...

— Treasure Island • Robert Louis Stevenson

... re-discovered by Europeans!—this, once determined, the Druid stones and the round towers of Ireland might all, by degrees, be explained: the obstinate resolve of all learned persons to derive everything in Europe from the Greeks and Romans, or to go to the far East, when fairly driven there, to find out origins, is very hard upon the enormous double continent of the New World, whose wondrous ruined palaces prove the original inhabitants to have been highly civilized and of immense power: and which, by its extent and variety, might cast into ...

— Barn and the Pyrenees - A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre • Louisa Stuart Costello

... classes downward, and excluding the swarms of immigrants in the large cities, we are a very old race, with a comprehensive knowledge of our own mentalities. One finds blond, blue-eyed Saxon children in East Anglia, and there are black-haired, brown-skinned people in the West Country who have had no foreign admixture to their Phoenician blood since the Norman Conquest. This makes for a certain solidarity of sentiment and a ...

— An Ocean Tramp • William McFee

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