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eastern
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective eastern has 5 senses
- eastern(s = adj.all) Array - lying toward or situated in the east; "the eastern end of the island"
- eastern(a = adj.all) Array - of or characteristic of eastern regions of the United States; "the Eastern establishment" Antonym: western
- eastern(s = adj.all) easterly - lying in or toward the east; "the east side of New York"; "eastern cities"
- eastern(a = adj.all) Array - relating to or characteristic of regions of eastern parts of the world; "Eastern Europe"; "the Eastern religions" Antonym: western
- eastern(s = adj.all) easterly - from the east; used especially of winds; "an eastern wind"; "the winds are easterly"
CIDE DICTIONARY
eastern, a. [AS. eástern.].
- Situated or dwelling in the east; oriental; as, an eastern gate; Eastern countries. [1913 Webster]"Eastern churches first did Christ embrace." [1913 Webster]
- Going toward the east, or in the direction of east; as, an eastern voyage. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
eastern, adj.
1 of or in the east; inhabiting the east.
2 lying or directed towards the east.
3 (Eastern) of or in the Far, Middle, or Near East.
1 of or in the east; inhabiting the east.
2 lying or directed towards the east.
3 (Eastern) of or in the Far, Middle, or Near East.
Idiom
Eastern Church the Orthodox Church. Eastern hemisphere the half of the earth containing Europe, Asia, and Africa. Eastern Time standard time used in eastern Canada and the US or in eastern Australia.
Derivative
easternmost adj.
Etymology
OE easterne (as EAST, -ERN)
ROGET THESAURUS
eastern
Laterality
N laterality, side, flank, quarter, lee, hand, cheek, jowl, jole, wing, profile, temple, parietes, loin, haunch, hip, beam, gable, gable end, broadside, lee side, points of the compass, East, Orient, Levant, West, orientation, lateral, sidelong, collateral, parietal, flanking, skirting, flanked, sideling, many sided, multilateral, bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral, Eastern, orient, oriental, Levantine, Western, occidental, Hesperian, sideways, sidelong, broadside on, on one side, abreast, alongside, beside, aside, by the side of, side by side, cheek by jowl, to windward, to leeward, laterally, right and left, on her beam ends, his cheek the may of days outworn.
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