East
51East — Synonyms and related words: Africa, America, Antipodes, Asia, Asia Major, Asia Minor, Australasia, Dixie, Dixieland, Down East, East Coast, Eastern Hemisphere, Eurasia, Europe, Far East, Levant, Middle Atlantic, Middle East, Middle West, Near… …
52East — /ist/ (say eest) noun (also lower case) the 1. Asia (as lying east of Europe and usually as culturally distinct from it and the West); the Orient. 2. WA eastern Australia. 3. a quarter or territory located in the east. –adjective 4. (also lower… …
53east — Normally, churches have the main altar at the eastern end, and altars in side chapels set against east walls; some early Christian writers recommend those praying out of doors to face east, as the rising sun symbolizes God (or Christ) as the… …
54east — see east is east, and west is west east, west, home’s best when the wind is in the east, ’tis neither good for man nor beast …
55east — 1. noun /iːst/ One of the four principal compass points, specifically 90°, conventionally directed to the right on maps; the direction of the rising sun at an equinox. 2. adjective /iːst/ a) Situated or lying in or towards the east; eastward. b)… …
56East — noun a) (personification) The wind from the east. and I sat down and wrote, In such a hand as when a field of corn Bows all its ears before the roaring East b) The Eastern world; the regions, primarily situated in the Eastern Hemisphere, whose… …
57east — [OE] Etymologically, east is the point of the compass at which the sun rises (and hence is a parallel formation to orient, which comes from a Latin word originally meaning ‘rising’). It goes back to an Indo European base *aus , source of a range… …
58east — iËst n. direction from which the sun rises, direction opposite west on a compass adj. of the east; situated in the east adv. toward the east …
59east — [OE] Etymologically, east is the point of the compass at which the sun rises (and hence is a parallel formation to orient, which comes from a Latin word originally meaning ‘rising’). It goes back to an Indo European base *aus , source of a range… …
60east of — being on the east side of, situated east of …
