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East
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east
English
Alternative forms
surname en Eastes
Etymology
en :from east
By proprialization from en east.
Pronunciation
en /iːst/
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en iːst 1
en east
Proper noun
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Any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie.
en North South West Northeast Northwest Southeast Southwest
23 I sat down and wrote, / In such a hand as when a field of corn / Bows all its ears before the roaring East;
Fire Rises 158 Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within; uneasy rushes of wind went through the hall,. East, West, North, and South, through the woods, four heavy-treading, unkempt figures crushed the high grass and cracked the branches, striding on cautiously to come together in the court-yard.
The Eastern world; the regions, primarily situated in the Eastern Hemisphere, whose culture is derived from Arabia, India, Persia or China.
II Third Narrative. Contributed by Franklin Blake. III 282 I remember a hearty welcome; a prodigious supper, which would have fed a whole village in the East;
en 1999 Pay Attention to Daniel's Prophecy! https://archive.org/details/payattentiontoda00watc/ Brooklyn, NY w:Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania 699719537 6892698M 118 https://archive.org/details/payattentiontoda00watc/page/118/ ¹⁰ In any event, Darius' visitors urged him to "establish the statute and sign the writing, in order for it not to be changed, according to the law of the Medes and the Persians, which is not annulled." (Daniel 6:8) In the ancient East, the will of a king was often regarded as absolute. This perpetuated the notion that he was infallible. Even a law that could cause the death of innocent people had to remain in effect! 10. How did the Medes and the Persians view a law enacted by their king?
The Eastern Bloc; the eastern countries of Europe.
en historical the Soviet Union and its socialist allies during the Cold War.
en historical The Eastern Roman Empire.
en Christianity That part of the Christian Church whose traditions and practices originated in the former territories of the Eastern Roman Empire, including the Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Catholic Churches, Oriental Orthodox Church, and Church of the East.
en 1947 Archdale A. King The Rites of Eastern Christendom I Rome Catholic Book Agency Preface XI https://archive.org/details/ritesofeasternch0001arch/page/n16/mode/1up The words may suggest that the Roman rite is in some way superior to those of the East: a fallacy now equally reprobated by Rome.
en Q1189650 The eastern states of the United States.
en North<id:Q1357541> South<id:Q49042> West<id:Q12612> Northeast<id:Q24460> Northwest<id:Q944857> Southeast<id:Q1139046> Southwest<id:Q858847>
en civil parish co/Kings County p/Prince Edward Island c/Canada. From 1765
A personification of the wind from the east.
en northeaster#Noun noreaster#Noun
en easter#Noun levanter#Noun
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Derived terms
en Eastalgia Eastralia Far East Middle East Mideast Near East Northeast
Translations
wind from the east
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 東風
Dutch: nl oostenwind m
Estonian: et idatuul
Finnish: fi itätuuli
German: de Ostwind m
Greek: el Λεβάντες m
Italian: it levante m
Russian: ru ост m, ru восто́чный ве́тер m
Slovene: sl vzhodnik m
Spanish: es viento de levante m, es levante m
Swedish: sv ostan c, sv ostanvind c
Telugu: te తూర్పు గాలి
Eastern world
Arabic: ar مشرق m الْمَشْرِق, ar شَرْق m
Armenian: hy Արեւելք
Belarusian: be Усхо́д m
Bulgarian: bg И́зток m, bg Орие́нт m
Burmese: my အရှေ့တိုင်း
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 東方 Dōngfāng, cmn 東洋 Dōngyáng
Czech: cs Orient m, cs Východ m
Danish: da Orienten c
Dutch: nl Oosten (het) Oosten n
Estonian: et idamaa, et idamaad, et hommikumaa, et hommikumaad, et orient, et Idamaa
Farefare: gur Asia-buulika East Asia
Finnish: fi itä, fi itämaat p, fi orientti
French: fr orient m, fr levant m
German: de Osten m, de Orient m refers to the Middle East rather than East Asia
Greek: el ανατολή f
Hebrew: he מִזְרָח m mizrákh
Hindi: hi पूरब m, hi पूर्व m
Hungarian: hu Kelet
Italian: it oriente m, it levante m, it Oriente m, it Levante m
Japanese: ja 東洋 とうよう, Tōyō, ja 東方 とうほう, Tōhō, ja オリエント Oriento
Khmer: km លោកខាងកើត
Korean: ko ^동양(東洋), ko ^동방(東方), ko ^오리엔트
Macedonian: mk Ориент m, mk Исток m
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn Дорно
Naga:
Khiamniungan Naga: kix ōtsīpík
Occitan: oc Orient m
Persian: fa شرق šarq, fa مشرقزمین mašreq-zamin
Polish: pl Orient m, pl Wschód m
Portuguese: pt levante m, pt nascente m, pt oriente m, pt Oriente m
Russian: ru Восто́к m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Оријент m, sh Исток m
Latin: sh Orijent m, sh Istok m
Slovak: sk Orient m, sk Východ m
Slovene: sl Orient m, sl Vzhod m
Spanish: es oriente m, es Oriente m
Swedish: sv Orienten, sv Fjärran Östern c, sv österland österlandet n
Tagalog: tl Silangan
Tajik: tg Шарқ
Thai: th โลกตะวันออก
Ukrainian: uk Схід m
Vietnamese: vi phương đông, vi Phương Đông
Volapük: vo lofüdän
Eastern bloc
Dutch: nl Oostblok (het) Oostblok n
Estonian: et idablokk
Finnish: fi itäblokki
Korean: ko ^동구(東歐), ko ^동구권(東歐圈)
Swedish: sv östblocket, sv öst
Eastern states of the US
Estonian: et idaosariigid
Finnish: fi (Yhdysvaltain) itäiset osavaltiot
French: fr les états de l'est des États-Unis
Italian: it gli stati dell'est degli Stati Uniti
Korean: ko ^동부(東部)
Further reading
East (surname)
Anagrams
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