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EST

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern United States

Synonyms:

Eastern Standard Time; Eastern Time; EST

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("EST" is a kind of...):

civil time; local time; standard time (the official time in a local region (adjusted for location around the Earth); established by law or custom)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Adieu, ma cherie! mon coeur est toujours a toi.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It is their fitting death. Mais Le Seigneur d'Andelys, avec le sang des rois dans ses veins! C'est incroyable!”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

C'est pour vos peches—pour vos peches, they droned, looking at the travellers with sad lack-lustre eyes, and then bent to their bloody work once more without heed to the prayers and persuasions which were addressed to them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ah, c'est l'amour, l'amour!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)