Eastern
['iːst(ə)n] or ['istɚn]
Definition
(adj.) lying toward or situated in the east; 'the eastern end of the island' .
(adj.) relating to or characteristic of regions of eastern parts of the world; 'Eastern Europe'; 'the Eastern religions' .
(adj.) of or characteristic of eastern regions of the United States; 'the Eastern establishment' .
Editor: Verna--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Situated or dwelling in the east; oriental; as, an eastern gate; Eastern countries.
(a.) Going toward the east, or in the direction of east; as, an eastern voyage.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Oriental, orient.[2]. Towards the east.
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Examples
- The Eastern German front was more extended and less systematically entrenched than the Western. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Still, said Maurice pertinently, the sun is still below the eastern side of the mountain, yet the air is quite warm. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The eastern armies did not so much defeat him as push past him, and Paris capitulated in March. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Over many parts of Europe a sort of legendary overlordship of the Hellenic Eastern Empire held its place in men's minds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At the far eastern confine a strange cavalcade strung, in single file, over the brow of a low hill. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The centre of diffusion of wheat was somewhere in the eastern Mediterranean region. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Finally, the fuel consumption is reduced, which in the case of the Eastern plants, with their relatively costly coke, is a very important consideration. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Troops from Lookout Valley carried the point of the mountain, and now hold the eastern slope and a point high up. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Here and there, some early lamps were seen to twinkle in the distant city; and in the eastern quarter of the sky the lurid light still hovered. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- As the Roman world was divided into the eastern and western halves, so was the Chinese world into the southern and the northern. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The length of the Great Eastern was 692 feet, beam 83 feet, depth 57? feet, draft 25? feet, displacement 27,000 tons, and speed 12 knots. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It belonged in the list of softening, sensuous influences peculiar to this home of Eastern luxury. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I assure you it did not at all misbecome him; he looked quite Eastern, except that he is so fair. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- One temple is said to have been so constructed as to face that part of the eastern horizon at which this star arose at the critical season of inundation. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- From the Gulf of Finland to the Eastern Ocean, Russia now assumes the form of a powerful and civilized empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The lower or eastern end was defended by two or three small detached works, armed with artillery and infantry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Chinese recovered Eastern Turkestan from them about 1757. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Let us consider that wonderful type of the resurrection, which is seen in the Eastern countries, that is to say, in Arabia. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Such was the tale sent us from Asia, from the eastern extremity of Europe, and from Africa as far west as the Golden Coast. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He was also urged to attack the Eastern empire by Genseric the Vandal, who was faced by an alliance of the Western and Eastern emperors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Alaric made a puppet of the eastern monarch and Stilicho of the western. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Eastern nations have used corundum for this purpose for ages. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Thy wife or thy daughter, that Eastern houri that thou lockest under thy arm as thou wouldst thy treasure-casket? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The White Man was beginning to drop his Burthen in eastern Asia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At the first flush of dawn in the gray eastern skies, the Melnosians were on the alert and ready for the fight. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- At this period China ruled eastern Turkestan, Tibet, Nepal, Burmah, and Annam. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The generals in command of the Rhine legions, the Palatine troops, and the eastern armies, each attempted to seize power. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These rulers were for the most part of the ordinary eastern type, cunning, treacherous, and blood-stained. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Well,' he said to me, 'Edison, you are doing a good thing for the Eastern furnaces. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Later the general standard of value in the Eastern world became silver, measured by weight. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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