east

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

easts

Adverb

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A word that modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, or a clause.

Comparative

further east

Superlative

furthest east

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.The direction of the earth's rotation, specifically 90°.

   • We live in the east of the country.
   • The levanter wind is in/from the east.
   • Portsmouth is to the east of Southampton.

2. 2.The eastern region or area; the inhabitants thereof.

   • We, in the west, agreed amongst ourselves that a penitentiary should be erected with our half of the money arising as above stated; and the east agreed to improve the country in their vicinity with the other half.

3. 3.In a church: the direction of the altar and chancel; the direction faced by the priest when celebrating ad orientem.

   • However, in Mies' chapel, liturgical east is magnetic west.
   • The tapestry by Graham Sutherland that occupies the whole wall of the liturgical east and geographic north of the cathedral is recognisable to the point of visual exhaustion.

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1. 1.Situated or lying in or towards the east; eastward.

2. 2.Blowing (as wind) from the east.

3. 3.Of or pertaining to the east; eastern.

4. 4.From the East; oriental.

Adverb

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A word that modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, or a clause.

1. 1.Towards the east; eastwards.

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