east
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Middle English est, from Old English ēast, from Proto-West Germanic *austr, from Proto-Germanic *austrą, from Proto-Germanic *austraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwsteros (“east”).
Cognate with Scots aist (“east”), North Frisian uast, ååst, ööst (“east”), Saterland Frisian Aaste (“east”), West Frisian east (“east”), Dutch oost (“east”), German Ost (“east”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål øst (“east”), Faroese eystur (“east”), Icelandic austur (“east”), Norwegian Nynorsk aust, øst (“east”), Swedish ost, öst, öster (“east”); also with Avestan 𐬎𐬱𐬀𐬯𐬙𐬀𐬭𐬀 (ušastara, “eastern”), Latin auster (“south”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]east (plural easts)
- The direction of the earth's rotation, specifically 90°.
- Alternative form: (abbreviation) E
- Portsmouth is to the east of Southampton.
- We live in the east of the country.
- The sun rises in the east.
- The levanter wind is in/from the east.
- 1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure:
- In a few hours the birds come to it from all points of the compass – east, west, north, and south […]
- The eastern region or area; the inhabitants thereof. [circa 1300]
- 1855, John Reynolds, My Own Times: Embracing Also the History of My Life, page 271:
- We, in the west, agreed amongst ourselves that a penitentiary should be erected with our half of the money arising as above stated; and the east agreed to improve the country in their vicinity with the other half.
- (ecclesiastical) In a church: the direction of the altar and chancel; the direction faced by the priest when celebrating ad orientem.
- 2014 April 11, Paul Porwoll, Against All Odds: History of Saint Andrew's Parish Church, Charleston, 1706–2013, Bloomington, Ind.: WestBow Press, →ISBN, pages 364–365:
- A few [Anglican churches in South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland] are oriented other than due [geographic] east—St. Paul's, St. George's, and Prince George's parish churches face northeast and St. Andrew's, southeast. […] Throughout the book I refer directionally to the altar and chancel of St. Andrew's as situated at ecclesiastical east (to avoid overcomplicating matters), not geographical or magnetic southeast. Thus, the altar is located at the east end of the church, and the gallery, at the west.
- 2018, Anat Geva, Modernism and American Mid-20th Century Sacred Architecture, Routledge, →ISBN:
- However, in Mies' chapel, liturgical east is magnetic west.
- 2019, Sarah Hosking, "Coventry Cathedral", in Prickett Stephen Prickett, Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 371:
- The tapestry by Graham Sutherland that occupies the whole wall of the liturgical east and geographic north of the cathedral is recognisable to the point of visual exhaustion.
Coordinate terms
[edit]| northwest | north | northeast |
| west | east | |
| southwest | south | southeast |
Derived terms
[edit]- Aberdare East
- about east
- Allendale East
- Arrowsmith East
- Ascot
- Aston
- Aurora East
- Awang East
- back east
- Bagong Barrio East
- Ballarat East
- Balliang East
- Balmain East
- Barangay East
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Baynton East
- Belalie East
- Bentleigh East
- Black East Indian
- Boambee East
- Boorhaman East
- Brighton East
- Broomehill East
- Brunswick East
- Budgerum East
- Buln Buln East
- Bundaberg East
- Burpengary East
- Burwood East
- Cabagñan East
- Cadcadir East
- Canada East
- Cansamada East
- Carunuan East
- Caulfield East
- Cheshire East
- Cobram East
- Colac East
- Corack East
- Coromandel East
- Cosili East
- Cranbourne East
- Croxton East
- Denistone East
- Doncaster East
- down east
- Drouin East
- Dudley East
- Dutton East
- eastabout
- East Acton
- East Africa
- East Albury
- East Allington
- East Amwell
- East and West Buckland
- East Anglia
- East Anstey
- East Ardsley
- East Arm
- East Arnhem
- East Atlantic peacock wrasse
- East Augusta
- East Aurora
- East Ayrshire
- East Azerbaijan
- East Bairnsdale
- East Ballidu
- East Ballina
- East Barkwith
- East Barnet
- East Barron
- East Beach
- East Bedlington
- East Bend
- East Bendigo
- East Bergholt
- East Bethlehem
- East Beverley
- East Bloomfield
- East Boldon
- East Boston
- eastbound
- East Bowes
- East Branxton
- East Brent
- East Bridgford
- East Brisbane
- Eastbrook
- East Buckland
- East Budleigh
- East Bunbury
- Eastbury
- east by north
- east by northeast
- east by south
- East Cam
- East Cambridgeshire
- East Cannington
- East Carisac
- East Carleton
- East Carlton
- East Carnarvon
- East Carroll Parish
- East-Central Europe
- East Challow
- East Chapman
- East Chevington
- East Chicago
- East Chinnock
- Eastchurch
- East Clandon
- East Claydon
- East Cleveland
- East Coker
- East Cooyar
- East Coraki
- East Corrimal
- Eastcote
- East Coventry
- East Cove Port
- East Cowton
- East Creek
- East Dallas
- East Damboring
- East Dean
- East Dean and Friston
- East Deep Creek
- East Devon
- East Devonport
- East Didsbury
- East Dorset
- East Down
- East Dubuque
- East Dulwich
- East Dunbartonshire
- East End
- easterliness
- easterly
- eastern
- Eastern Creek
- easterner
- Eastern Heights
- Eastern View
- East Falkland
- East Farleigh
- East Feliciana Parish
- East Feluga
- East Finchley
- East Fishkill
- East Fortune
- East Franklin
- East Fremantle
- East Garafraxa
- Eastgardens
- East Garston
- East Garton
- East Geelong
- East Gippsland
- East Glacier Park
- East Godavari
- East Goscote
- East Gosford
- East Greenmount
- East Greenwich
- East Gresford
- East Grinstead
- East Gwillimbury
- East Haldon
- East Halton
- East Hampshire
- East Hampton
- East Hanningfield
- East Hants
- East Harling
- East Harptree
- East Hartford
- East Harting
- East Haven
- East Hendred
- East Hertfordshire
- East Hills
- East Horndon
- East Horsley
- East Huntspill
- eastie
- Eastie
- East Indian
- East Indies
- East Indy
- easting
- East Innisfail
- East Ipswich
- East Jindabyne
- East Kamias
- East Kangaloon
- East Kempsey
- East Kilbride
- East Killara
- East Knighton
- East Knoyle
- East Kootenay
- East Kurrajong
- East Kwa
- Eastlake
- East Lake
- Eastlakes
- East La Mirada
- eastland
- East Langton
- East Lansing
- East Launceston
- East Lavington
- East Leake
- East Lindfield
- East Lindsey
- East Linton
- East Lismore
- East Lockinge
- East London
- East Looe
- East Lothian
- eastly
- East Lynne
- East Lyons River
- East Mackay
- East Maitland
- East Malling
- East Markham
- East Marlborough
- East Marmara
- East Mead
- East Melbourne
- East Molesey
- East Moline
- East Moonta
- East Moors
- eastmost
- East Munglinup
- East Murchison
- East Nabawa
- East Nanango
- East Nannup
- East Naples
- eastness
- East Newdegate
- East Northamptonshire
- east-northeast
- east northeast
- east-north-east
- east-northeasterly
- east-northeastern
- east-northeastward
- east-northeastwards
- East Norton
- Easton
- East Orange
- East Palestine
- East Palmerston
- East Peckham
- East Penn
- East Pennsboro
- East Peoria
- East Perth
- East Pilbara
- East Pingelly
- East Poblacion
- East Point
- East Pomeranian
- East Popanyinning
- Eastport
- East Providence
- East Quantoxhead
- Eastralia
- East Region
- East Renfrewshire
- East Ridgley
- East Riding
- East Rockingham
- East Rudham
- East Runton
- East Russell
- East Rutherford
- East Ryde
- East Saint Louis
- East Sale
- East Seaham
- East Sheen
- East Side
- Eastside
- east side, eastside
- east southeast
- east-south-east
- east-southeast
- east-southeasterly
- east-southeastern
- east-southeastward
- east-southeastwards
- East Staffordshire
- East St. Louis
- East Stoke
- East Stroudsburg
- East Suffolk
- East Sussex
- East Tamworth
- East Tilbury
- East Timor
- East Tisted
- East Toowoomba
- East Trinity
- East Turkestan
- East Turkistan
- East Victoria Park
- East Vietnamese Sea
- Eastville
- East Wagga Wagga
- East Wangaratta
- East Warburton
- eastward
- East Wardell
- eastwardly
- eastwards
- East Wemyss
- east-west
- East Whiteland
- East Wickepin
- East Winch
- east wind
- Eastwood
- East Woodburn
- East Woodhay
- East Worthing
- East York
- East Yuna
- East Zorra
- Eidsvold East
- Elizabeth East
- Essex
- Fairfield East
- Far East
- Framlingham East
- Gabu Norte East
- Gawler East
- Gilling East
- Girgarre East
- Glenelg East
- Glenhope East
- Glenloth East
- Gowar East
- Grace Park East
- Hamilton East
- Hampton East
- Hawthorn East
- Highlands East
- Holme East Waver
- Hugpa East
- Ilawod East
- Irrewillipe East
- Ivanhoe East
- Jancourt East
- Jimbour East
- Kahayagan East
- Kambalda East
- Katamatite East
- Katherine East
- Kawit-East Washington Drive
- Kayan East
- Keilor East
- Kerang East
- Kew East
- Kialla East
- Kilikili East
- Kilmore East
- Kingdom of the East Franks
- Laen East
- Lang Lang East
- La Paz East
- Lima East
- Lobe-lobe East
- Łódź East
- Longwood East
- Malvern East
- Mangato East
- Marnoo East
- Mayfield East
- Meningie East
- Mepunga East
- Metcalfe East
- Middle East
- Middle East syndrome
- Mount Bryan East
- Mount Gravatt East
- Muñoz East
- Murchison East
- Murray Bridge East
- Nangalisan East
- Naringal East
- Narre Warren East
- Near East
- Neerim East
- Newcastle East
- Nirranda East
- Noorat East
- nor'-east
- nor'-nor'-east
- north by east
- north-east
- northeast
- northeast by east
- North East Derbyshire
- North East Lincolnshire
- North-East Region
- north-northeast
- north-north-east
- Oakleigh East
- Pagolingin East
- Passage East
- Pastoria East
- Pata East
- Peechelba East
- Perth East
- Picton East
- Pirie East
- Poblacion East
- Pomborneit East
- Poowong East
- Queanbeyan East
- Reynella East
- Rich Avon East
- Ringwood East
- Rosedale East Side
- Salisbury East
- Sampao East
- San Francisco East
- San Jose East
- Scotland of the East
- Scott River East
- Seville East
- Shepparton East
- Silicon Valley of the East Coast
- sou'-east
- sou'-sou'-east
- south by east
- southeast
- south-east
- southeast by east
- South East Nanango
- south-south-east
- south-southeast
- star in the east
- St Arnaud East
- St Kilda East
- St Newlyn East
- Tallangatta East
- Tanami East
- Tatura East
- Teachers Village East
- Telangatuk East
- Terrick Terrick East
- Trafalgar East
- Traralgon East
- Trentham East
- Turriff East
- Tyrendarra East
- Ultima East
- Urangeline East
- Valley East
- Walhalla East
- Wallaloo East
- Wandearah East
- Wandin East
- Warding East
- Wattle Ridge East
- Wellington East
- Whorouly East
- Willoughby East
- Woorarra East
- Wulgulmerang East
- Wyuna East
- Yeungroon East
Translations
[edit]- Also see Appendix:Cardinal directions for translations of all compass points
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Adjective
[edit]east (not comparable)
- Situated or lying in or towards the east; eastward.
- (meteorology) Blowing (as wind) from the east.
- Of or pertaining to the east; eastern.
- From the East; oriental.
- (ecclesiastical) Designating, or situated in, the liturgical east.
- the east front of a cathedral
- 2014, Paul Porwoll, Against All Odds: History of Saint Andrew's Parish Church, Charleston, 1706-2013, WestBow Press, →ISBN, page 365:
- Throughout the book I refer directionally to the altar and chancel of St. Andrew's as situated at ecclesiastical east (to avoid overcomplicating matters), not geographical or magnetic southeast. Thus, the altar is located at the east end of the church, and the gallery, at the west.
- 2019, Sarah Hosking, "Coventry Cathedral", in Prickett Stephen Prickett, Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 371:
- The tapestry by Graham Sutherland that occupies the whole wall of the liturgical east and geographic north of the cathedral is recognisable […] a huge image of Christ on the [liturgical] east end, filling the entire wall and to be visible through the [liturgical] West Window (Fig. 24.2).
Synonyms
[edit]- (situated or lying in or towards the east): eastward
- (meteorology: wind from the east): easterly
- (of or pertaining to the east): eastern
- (from the East): oriental
Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of “situated or lying in or towards the east”): westward
- (antonym(s) of “meteorology: wind from the east”): westerly
- (antonym(s) of “of or pertaining to the east”): western
Translations
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Adverb
[edit]east (comparative further east or farther east, superlative furthest east or farthest east)
Synonyms
[edit]- (towards the east): eastwards
Antonyms
[edit]Translations
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Descendants
[edit]- → Cornish: est
Anagrams
[edit]Estonian
[edit]Noun
[edit]east
Old English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- ēaste f
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *austr.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ēast m
- the east
Declension
[edit]Strong a-stem:
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ēast | ēastas |
| accusative | ēast | ēastas |
| genitive | ēastes | ēasta |
| dative | ēaste | ēastum |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Adjective
[edit]ēast
Declension
[edit]| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ēast | ēast | ēast |
| Accusative | ēastne | ēaste | ēast |
| Genitive | ēastes | ēastre | ēastes |
| Dative | ēastum | ēastre | ēastum |
| Instrumental | ēaste | ēastre | ēaste |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | ēaste | ēasta, ēaste | ēast |
| Accusative | ēaste | ēasta, ēaste | ēast |
| Genitive | ēastra | ēastra | ēastra |
| Dative | ēastum | ēastum | ēastum |
| Instrumental | ēastum | ēastum | ēastum |
Descendants
[edit]- English: east
Adverb
[edit]ēast
- from the east
- towards the east
Descendants
[edit]West Frisian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Frisian āst, from Proto-West Germanic *austr.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]east
Inflection
[edit]This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Noun
[edit]east n (plural [please provide])
Noun
[edit]east c (plural [please provide])
- east, eastern former colonies
See also
[edit]| noard | ||
| west | east | |
| súd |
Further reading
[edit]- “east”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Yola
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English est, from Old English ēast, from Proto-West Germanic *austr.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]east
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Charles Vallancey (1788), “Memoir of the Language, Manners and Customs of an Anglo-Saxon Colony Settled in the Baronies of Forth and Bargie, in the County of Wexford, Ireland, in 1167, 1168 and 1169.”, in The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy[1], volume 2, Royal Irish Academy, page 34
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