East Coast
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2.4
- proper noun
- /iːst koʊst/
- US
:
costa este (de Estados Unidos)
- Polls are opening on the East Coast.
- U.S. East Coast
- East Coast states
- East Coast ports
It's from Bob Reel, executive director of the East Coast Shellfish Growers Association.
- It's from Bob Reel, executive director of the East Coast Shellfish Growers Association.
- But one, no offense to the East Coast people, but he's a New Yorker.
- Like I would love a fall, like the fall on the East Coast is like unreal.
- Before rail and good roads were laid, the easiest route from the East Coast to California was by sea.
- This happened to me at an Otakon, the anime convention on the East Coast in the USA.
- It was like because Jerry curls wasn't popping on the East Coast, but guns worse.
- My ancestors built this dog on country from from up East Coast all the way down South.
- There's this dude who lives down the East Coast, South East coast of Florida.
Examples
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It's just those guys on the East Coast are never gonna get it.
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And he was born and raised on the East Coast, Long Island to be specific.
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But for our group, we break it up East Coast, West Coast.
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This morning, all up the East Coast....
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It's on the East Coast.
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Like I would love a fall, like the fall on the East Coast is like unreal.
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It'll be a good day on the East Coast.
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I've got more corporate stops on the East Coast for you.
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The largest oyster market on the East Coast, and probably in the world, was Baltimore.
Academic text (1991) -
Many major cities, including New York and Boston, are located on the East Coast of the United States.
Synonyms
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1.8
Land next to the Atlantic Ocean, for example the east side of North America
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2.3
The eastern coast of the United States along the Atlantic Ocean between Boston and Washington, DC
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'East' (eastern) + 'coast' (land beside the sea), so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand it refers to the eastern seaboard. While precise national/regional boundaries (e.g. Boston to Washington) require local knowledge, the core spatial meaning is transparent and cross-linguistically common.
Etymology
East Coast comes from a simple map image: east is the side where the sun rises and coast is the land next to the sea. So, East Coast now means 'the eastern seaboard of the United States', the long area along the country's eastern shore, for example from Boston to Washington, D.C.