easternadjective
also Eastern uk/ˈiː.stən/us/ˈiː.stɚn/written abbreviation EB1 in or from the east part of an area:
The eastern part of the country is very mountainous.
Until about 1991, the Eastern bloc was the Soviet Union and the communist countries of eastern Europe.
Buddhism and other Eastern (= Asian) religions fascinate me.
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- On the eastern horizon, a huge cloud of smoke from burning oil tanks stretched across the sky.
- We witnessed a remarkable chain of events in eastern Europe in 1989.
- The hurricane is centered over the eastern Caribbean.
- It's in the poorer, underdeveloped eastern region of the country that the biggest problems exist.
- They are the single most successful eastern arts group in the West.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Points of the compass
- cardinal point
- compass reading
- E, e
- east
- easterly
- geomagnetic pole
- N, n
- northeastern
- northeastward
- northerly
- northern
- northernmost
- northwestward
- southeastern
- southern
- southernmost
- southward
- southwestern
- true north
- western
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