East
See also: east
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /iːst/
Proper noun
East
- (personification) The wind from the east.
- 1847: Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Princess
- and I sat down and wrote, In such a hand as when a field of corn Bows all its ears before the roaring East
- 1859: Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
- uneasy rushes of wind went through the hall [...] East, West, North, and South, through the woods, four heavy-treading, unkempt figures crushed the high grass and cracked the branches
- 1847: Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Princess
- The Eastern world; the regions, primarily situated in the Eastern Hemisphere, whose culture is derived from Arabia, India or China.
- 1868, Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone:
- I remember a hearty welcome; a prodigious supper, which would have fed a whole village in the East
- 1868, Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone:
- The Eastern Bloc; the eastern countries of Europe.
- (historical) the Soviet Union and its socialist allies during the Cold War.
- The eastern states of the United States.
- The eastern part of any region.
- A surname.
Derived terms
Derived terms
Translations
wind from the east
Eastern world
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Eastern bloc
Eastern states of the US
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