eastern
- adjective
- /ˈiːstərn/
- The eastern breeze brought a refreshing change to the hot summer day.
Examples
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The office lay on the eastern side of the house, looking over the gardens.
Fiction book (1995) -
Hillsborough County, on the eastern shore of the bay, has a population of approximately 870,000.
Academic text (1990) -
You know, this comes from the eastern part of our map.
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This is probably in eastern and southern Africa.
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In much of central and eastern Europe, Jews had long played an important role in trade and commerce.
Academic text (2008) -
It's on the eastern, eastern outskirts of Paris.
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The core of Sun Belt economic growth in the eastern United States was the Carolina and Georgia Piedmont.
Academic text (2008) -
One person studied the impacts of cattle grazing on public lands in eastern Washington.
Academic text (1999) -
The shuttle Atlantis exploded in space at 3:47 AM, eastern standard time.
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The Ara Pacis stood on the eastern edge of the Campus Martius.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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3.5
Moving from the east
Antonyms
Compounds
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2.3
A part of the United States north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River
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2.4
The standard time for the eastern United States, five hours behind Greenwich Mean Time
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4.6
Christian churches that came from the Byzantine tradition, for example the Eastern Orthodox Church
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3.7
A group of Christian churches that follow Eastern ways of worship and do not accept the Pope's authority
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3.6
The half of the Earth east of the prime meridian that includes Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia
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7.4
A large evergreen tree with short needles found in eastern North America, often used to make paper
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8.7
A medium-sized songbird of eastern North America with a bright yellow belly and a black V on its chest
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5.6
A tall tree from eastern North America with long needles, soft wood, and brown bark with long cracks
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6.8
A small North American juniper tree with reddish-brown peeling bark and sharp needle-like leaves
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4.9
A mountain range along the east coast of Australia from Queensland to Victoria
- Specialized
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8.4
A venomous banded snake from the southeastern United States and parts of Central America
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2.7
A common medium-sized squirrel from eastern North America with gray fur and a bushy tail
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7.4
A North American bird with a dark body and a white-tipped tail that eats insects
- Specialized
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6.8
A small active lizard from eastern North America that often sits in the sun on fences or rocks
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6.7
Churches that follow Eastern Christian worship while being part of the Roman Catholic Church
- South African
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7.2
A large gorilla that lives in lowland forests of eastern Congo
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6.9
The eastern part of the Roman Empire that continued after 395 with its capital at Constantinople
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6.1
A large fast-growing tree with broad leaves that often grows along rivers
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4.6
A medium-sized evergreen tree from eastern North America that people use for wood and paper
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8.2
A small tree from eastern North America with showy white or pink spring flowers and red fall berries
- Specialized
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7.0
A common rabbit with a small fluffy white tail that lives in eastern and central North America
- Specialized
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7.7
A small frog that lives near ponds and streams in the eastern United States and makes a short clicking call
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9.5
A medium-sized tree with thin flaky bark and hop-like fruit groups found in eastern North America
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 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 salamander from eastern North America with a red stripe along its back
- Australian
A small animal from New Guinea that eats insects and small animals and has stripes on its back
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 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
- 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 Turkish armed Islamist group that uses violence for political goals
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Eastern comes from the simple word east, which means 'the direction where the sun rises'. That's why an eastern wind comes from that side, the east.