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eastern

[ee-stern]

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adjective

lying toward or situated in the east: the eastern half of the island.

directed or proceeding toward the east: an eastern route.

coming from the east: an eastern wind.

(often initial capital letter) of or pertaining to the East in the U.S.: an eastern Congressman.

(initial capital letter) of or pertaining to the Eastern Church or to any of the churches comprising it.

EXPAND

(usually initial capital letter) Oriental.

(usually initial capital letter) (formerly) of or pertaining to the Soviet Union and its allies.

COLLAPSE

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English esterne, Old English ēasterne; akin to Old Norse austroenn, Old High German ōstrōni. See east, -ern

Related forms

non·east·ern, adjective

pro-East·ern, adjective

un·east·ern, adjective

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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East (iːst)

—n
1.	the continent of Asia regarded as culturally distinct from Europe and the West; the Orient
2.	Compare West the countries under Communist rule and formerly under Communist rule, lying mainly in the E hemisphere
3.	in the US
	a. the area north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi
	b. the area north of Maryland and east of the Alleghenies

—*adj*
4.	a. of or denoting the eastern part of a specified country, area, etc
	b. (as part of a name): East Sussex

'Eastern

—*adj*

eastern (ˈiːstən)

—*adj*
1.	situated in or towards the east
2.	facing or moving towards the east

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Word Origin & History

eastern

O.E. easterne "of the east, from the east; of the Eastern Orthodox Church; of the eastern part of the globe;" see east. Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia so called from 1620s.

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"If American has points of inferiority to English, they are merely matters of degree; if the Americans are, as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in 1858, "the Romans of the modern world—the great assimilating people," the English are only to an exceedingly limited degree its Greeks. They are tarred too much with the same brush of pragmatism, democracy, industrialism, and materialism for deep cleavage. Even America is not wholly democratic culturally; there are remarkable enclaves of aristocratic culture in the cosmopolitan and tradition-bound society of the Eastern seaboard, whose members look east toward Europe far more than they look west towards the heartland of Americanism."

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