east
Etymology
From Middle English est, from Old English ēast, from Proto-Germanic *austrą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-.
Compare West Frisian east, Холандски oost, Немачки Ost, Norwegian Nynorsk aust, Шведски öst.
Pronunciation
Noun
east (countable and uncountable, plural easts)
- 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. Abbreviated as E.
- Portsmouth is to the east of Southampton.
- We live in the east of the country.
- 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.
- 1855, John Reynolds, My Own Times: Embracing Also the History of My Life, page 271:
- (ecclesiastical) In a church: the direction of the altar and chancel; the direction faced by the priest when celebrating ad orientem.
- 2014, Paul Porwoll, Against All Odds: History of Saint Andrew's Parish Church, Charleston, 1706-2013, WestBow Press (→ISBN), page 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.
- 2014, Paul Porwoll, Against All Odds: History of Saint Andrew's Parish Church, Charleston, 1706-2013, WestBow Press (→ISBN), page 365:
Coordinate terms
northwest | north | northeast |
west | ![]() |
east |
southwest | south | southeast |
Derived terms
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Cheshire East
- East Africa
- East and West Buckland
- East Ardsley
- East Aurora
- East Ayrshire
- East Bedlington
- East Boldon
- eastbound
- East Brent
- East Buckland
- East Budleigh
- east by north
- east by south
- East Cambridgeshire
- East Carleton
- East Carlton
- East Carroll Parish
- East Chevington
- East Clandon
- East Cleveland
- East Cowton
- East Dean
- East Devon
- East Didsbury
- East Dorset
- East Dubuque
- East Dunbartonshire
- East End
- easterliness
- easterly
- eastern
- easterner
- East Farleigh
- East Feliciana Parish
- East Finchley
- East Fishkill
- East Fortune
- East Garston
- East Glacier Park
- East Goscote
- East Greenwich
- East Grinstead
- East Gwillimbury
- East Halton
- East Hampshire
- East Hampton
- East Haven
- East Hertfordshire
- East Horndon
- East Horsley
- East Huntspill
- easting
- East Kilbride
- East Langton
- East Lavington
- East Leake
- East Lindsey
- East Linton
- East Lothian
- East Markham
- East Melbourne
- East Moors
- East Naples
- East Northamptonshire
- East Norton
- East Peckham
- East Renfrewshire
- East Runton
- east side, eastside
- East St. Louis
- East Staffordshire
- East Suffolk
- East Sussex
- East Tilbury
- East Timor
- East Tisted
- East Turkestan
- East Turkistan
- eastward
- eastwardly
- eastwards
- east-west
- East Woodhay
- Gilling East
- Kew East
- northeast
- North East Derbyshire
- North East Lincolnshire
- north-northeast
- southeast
- south-southeast
- St Newlyn East
Translations
- Also see Appendix:Cardinal directions for translations of all compass points
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Adjective
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
- (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
- (situated or lying in or towards the east): westward
- (meteorology: wind from the east): westerly
- (of or pertaining to the east): western
Translations
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Adverb
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Synonyms
- (towards the east): eastwards
Antonyms
Translations
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Anagrams
Estonian
Noun
east
- elative једнине of iga
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *austrą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- (“eastern”). Cognate with Old Frisian āst, Old Saxon ost, Холандски oost, Old High German ōst, Немачки Osten, Old Norse austr. The Indo-European root is also the source of Латински auster (“southerly”) and aurora (“dawn”), Latvian austrumi (“easterly”), Proto-Slavic *utro.
Pronunciation
Noun
ēast m
- the east
Declension
Descendants
Adjective
Declension
Adverb
- from the east
- towards the east
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian āst, from Proto-Germanic *austrą.
Pronunciation
Adjective
east
Inflection
Овај adjective захтева inflection-table template.
Further reading
- “east”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Noun
east n (plural [please provide])
Further reading
- “east”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Noun
east c (plural [please provide])
- east, eastern former colonies
Further reading
- “east”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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