eastern United States
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2.3
- proper noun
- /ˈiːstərn ˈjuːnaɪtɪd steɪts/
:
este de Estados Unidos
- Our Smoky Mountains contain the last virgin forests in the eastern United States.
- Fauna of the eastern United States
- forests of the eastern United States
- found in the eastern United States
Examples
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" The new strains appeared in the eastern United States beginning in 1992.
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MAP: The Mississippian world included much of the eastern United States.
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The original sample included junior high students from one rural public school district in the eastern United States.
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Life in the eastern United States was not as different from the Old World as Europeans generally thought, he said.
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Photographer Tony Sweet is offering image design workshops throughout the eastern United States in 2004.
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Uncounted thousands of bungalows like this were built in the eastern United States between World War I and the Great Depression.
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The populations of many species of neotropical migrants have declined, especially birds that summer in the eastern United States.
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The sample consisted of 340 intercollegiate athletes from nine universities in the eastern United States.
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The section also includes Bruce D. Smith's groundbreaking documentation of the Eastern United States as a fourth center for the discovery of agriculture.
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An unseasonable winter storm brought snow to the eastern United States a few days before Halloween.
Synonyms
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2.1
The area of the United States north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River
Antonyms
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1.8
The part of the United States west of the Mississippi River, including California and Nevada
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'eastern' specifies the eastern part of the 'United States' (a country name made from 'united' + 'states'), so the overall meaning follows directly from the constituents. This adjective + place-name pattern is common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows the words will readily infer it refers to the eastern region of the USA.
Etymology
Eastern United States is a simple place name that comes from a map idea: eastern means the east side of the United States. People long ago described the area as 'east of' the Mississippi River and 'north of' the Ohio River, so today the phrase means the region on the country's east side.