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EAST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A location in the eastern part of a country, region, or city
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("east" is a kind of...):
location (a point or extent in space)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The countries of Asia
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Asia (the nations of the Asian continent collectively)
Meronyms (parts of "East"):
Far East (a popular expression for the countries of eastern Asia (usually including China and Mongolia and Taiwan and Japan and Korea and Indochina and eastern Siberia))
Attribute:
eastern (relating to or characteristic of regions of eastern parts of the world)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The region of the United States lying to the north of the Ohio River and to the east of the Mississippi River
Synonyms:
East; eastern United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Meronyms (parts of "East"):
Appalachian Mountains; Appalachians (a mountain range in the eastern United States extending from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico; a historic barrier to early westward expansion of the United States)
East Coast (the eastern seaboard of the United States (especially the strip between Boston and Washington D.C.))
Northeast; northeastern United States (the northeastern region of the United States)
Southeast; southeastern United States (the southeastern region of the United States)
Attribute:
eastern (of or characteristic of eastern regions of the United States)
Holonyms ("East" is a part of...):
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("east" is a kind of...):
cardinal compass point (one of the four main compass points)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The direction corresponding to the eastward cardinal compass point
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("east" is a kind of...):
direction (the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Situated in or facing or moving toward the east
Classified under:
Similar:
eastbound; eastward (moving toward the east)
easterly; eastern (from the east; used especially of winds)
easterly; eastern (lying in or toward the east)
eastern (lying toward or situated in the east)
easternmost; eastmost (farthest to the east)
eastside (of the eastern part of a city e.g. Manhattan)
Antonym:
west (situated in or facing or moving toward the west)
III. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To, toward, or in the east
Example:
located east of Rome
Classified under:
Context examples:
Alkali-resistant ‘sea rice’ planted in east China’s Shandong Province was harvested by Chinese scientists from Qingdao Sea Rice R&D Centre.
(Saltwater Rice Successfully Harvested by Chinese Scientists, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
"She was the Wicked Witch of the East, as I said," answered the little woman.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Dr. Livesey take the north side, if you please; Jim, the east; Gray, west. The watch below, all hands to load muskets.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
It had been a bitter day, and a cutting north-east wind had blown for some time.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
We should not have troubled you, only that our friend who speaks Greek and who began these negotiations has been forced to return to the East.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Resolved to pursue no inglorious career, he turned his eyes toward the East, as affording scope for his spirit of enterprise.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
As a note to those readers who are curious: in the US, the eclipse will fall on December 25 and later, on December 26, in countries in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Australia.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Australia, between Tonga and French Polynesia.
(Cook Islands, NCI Thesaurus)
The stable-boy threw a light upon the matter by remembering that a farmer of that name lived some miles off, in the direction of East Ruston.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“And I say east,” said my patient.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
