eastern
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- adjective
- /ˈiːstərn/
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oriental
- The sun rises in the eastern part of the sky each morning.
- eastern Europe
- Middle eastern
- Central and eastern
We have two enemies on the Eastern Front and the Western Front.
- We have two enemies on the Eastern Front and the Western Front.
- Because Poland, as you'll remember, converts to not Eastern but Western Christianity.
- Yes, especially their clash on the Eastern front, Val of Kursk.
- But there are American carrier strike groups in the eastern Med and in the Gulf.
- Coming to us from eastern Connecticut, Polly Vinito.
- It would be ex Nazis living in Eastern Europe, for instance.
- When my family and I rent cars in Eastern Europe, where my husband is from.
- So, but let's not forget Eastern Europe was occupied.
- And then in the case of Ukraine, it's, it's eastern Ukraine and western Ukraine.
- policy, Israel occupies the eastern part of Jerusalem.
- I mean, really bleak inflation, war in Eastern Europe, I mean, unrest.
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His death seems to have hit the Eastern European teenage modeling community particularly hard.
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So it's not far from the border of eastern Turkey and western Syria.
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And so we are both part of the eastern and Western Africa.
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We have two enemies on the Eastern Front and the Western Front.
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It's an Eastern European enforcement practice.
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The policy tools developed for Central and Eastern Europe a decade ago are, accordingly, no longer as effective.
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We were filming up in the eastern high desert of Oregon.
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But there are American carrier strike groups in the eastern Med and in the Gulf.
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Our Eastern Seaboard is an undeveloped area.
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The Mekong River forms much of this country's eastern border with Lao.
Synonyms
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Located toward the east
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The standard time for the eastern United States, five hours behind Greenwich Mean Time
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A part of the United States north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River
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Christian churches that came from the Byzantine tradition, for example the Eastern Orthodox Church
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A medium-sized songbird of eastern North America with a bright yellow belly and a black V on its chest
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A group of Christian churches that follow Eastern ways of worship and do not accept the Pope's authority
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The eastern part of the Roman Empire that continued after 395 with its capital at Constantinople
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The half of the Earth east of the prime meridian that includes Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia
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A large evergreen tree with short needles found in eastern North America, often used to make paper
Churches that follow Eastern Christian worship while being part of the Roman Catholic Church
A small chestnut tree from the southeastern United States with small edible nuts
A small animal like a squirrel with dark and light stripes and cheek pouches for storing food
- Specialized
A venomous banded snake from the southeastern United States and parts of Central America
- Specialized
A common rabbit with a small fluffy white tail that lives in eastern and central North America
A North American bird with a dark body and a white-tipped tail that eats insects
- South African
A large gorilla that lives in lowland forests of eastern Congo
- Specialized
A group of languages related to Malay and Polynesian spoken in eastern Indonesia and the Pacific
A small toad with a very narrow mouth that lives in the southeastern United States
A short, hairy plant that comes back every year and has blue-violet or lilac flowers in early spring
A very small bat found in eastern North America that flies fast and eats insects
A small North American juniper tree with reddish-brown peeling bark and sharp needle-like leaves
A small salamander from eastern North America with a red stripe along its back
- Specialized
A small frog that lives near ponds and streams in the eastern United States and makes a short clicking call
- Australian
A small animal from New Guinea that eats insects and small animals and has stripes on its back
- Specialized
A small active lizard from eastern North America that often sits in the sun on fences or rocks
A small tree from eastern North America with showy white or pink spring flowers and red fall berries
A large tree squirrel with a bushy tail and reddish gray fur that lives in the eastern United States
A small reddish-grey snake in eastern North America that burrows under leaves and soil
A common medium-sized squirrel from eastern North America with gray fur and a bushy tail
A mountain range along the east coast of Australia from Queensland to Victoria
A medium-sized tree with thin flaky bark and hop-like fruit groups found in eastern North America
A large nonvenomous snake with shiny blue-black skin that lives in the southeastern United States
A group of islands in the Pacific that form a United States territory called American Samoa
- Specialized
A small plant with narrow silvery leaves and purple daisy-like flowers that blooms in late summer
A medium-sized evergreen tree from eastern North America that people use for wood and paper
- Archaic
A Turkic literary language people used for books and poems in Central Asia in the Middle Ages
- Archaic
A medieval written Turkic language from Central Asia used in regions once ruled by a son of Genghis Khan
A tall tree from eastern North America with long needles, soft wood, and brown bark with long cracks
A Turkish armed Islamist group that uses violence for political goals
How East
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Etymology
Eastern comes from the simple word east, which means 'the direction where the sun rises'. So, eastern is used for places or parts that are in or face that side of a country or city.