East is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EAST in dictionary:

VERB:
• to turn east (a point on the compass)
• Eastward.
• To move toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east; to orientate.
• move or turn east
NOUN:
• the direction towards the point of the horizon where the sun rises at the equinoxes, on the right-hand side of a person facing north
• the compass point corresponding to east.
• the eastern part of the world or of a specified country, region, or town
• the regions or countries lying to the east of Europe, especially China, Japan, and India
• the former communist states of eastern Europe
• the player sitting to the left of North and partnering West
• (direction towards) the part of the horizon where the sun rises
• The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox, or the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and which is toward the right hand of one who faces the north; the point directly opposite to the west.
• The eastern parts of the earth; the regions or countries which lie east of Europe; the orient. In this indefinite sense, the word is applied to Asia Minor, Syria, Chaldea, Persia, India, China, etc.; as, the riches of the East; the diamonds and pearls of the East; the kings of the East.
• Formerly, the part of the United States east of the Alleghany Mountains, esp. the Eastern, or New England, States; now, commonly, the whole region east of the Mississippi River, esp. that which is north of Maryland and the Ohio River; -- usually with the definite article; as, the commerce of the East is not independent of the agriculture of the West.
• the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees
• the countries of Asia
• the region of the United States lying to the north of the Ohio River and to the east of the Mississippi River
• the direction corresponding to the eastward cardinal compass point
• a location in the eastern part of a country, region, or city
ADVERB:
• to or towards the east
• to, toward, or in the east
• in, to, or towards the east
ADJECTIVE:
• lying towards, near, or facing the east
• (of a wind) blowing from the east
• situated in the part of a church containing the altar or high altar, usually the actual east
• of or denoting the eastern part of a specified region, town, or country
• Toward the rising sun; or toward the point where the sun rises when in the equinoctial; as, the east gate; the east border; the east side; the east wind is a wind that blows from the east.
• situated in or facing or moving toward the east
• in the east
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a cardinal point of the compass

Words related to EAST

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Words that contain EAST

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How to use EAST in a sentence

• Great purity of manners seems to prevail on the north and west coasts, but not on the east coast, nor in Leyte.
• But, then, what would you have? The people in the East are never in a hurry, and it was written for them.
• The East, however, has, in regard to the others, a pre-eminence, for it is not merely the home of the east wind, but of the light and the dawn as well.
• He had pursued the Huns and the Saxons to the confines of the empire of the East, and the Saracens to the islands of Corsica and Sardinia.
• In another minute East and Martin tear through the quadrangle carrying a sponge, and arrive at the scene of action just as the combatants are beginning to strip.
• Got off a good morning march in spite of keeping too far east and getting in rough, cracked ice.
• A grey, cold sky, with swift-flying clouds from the east hung over a grey, cold sea, the waves showing their wicked white teeth under the lash of the strong wind.
• The door is usually locked, but the key may be obtained from a lodge near by, down the slope to the east.
• Successful here, he governed for twelve years dominions extending near a thousand miles from east to west, and from north to south probably not much short of five hundred.
• Our first idea had been to run due east till we struck the coast of Holland, which we knew must be something less than one hundred and fifty miles away.
• It is a great pity that there is such a lack of enterprise in the various European settlements on the East Coast of Africa.
• Soon after this, he heard the welcome news that his regiment was ordered home immediately, evidently in consequence of the disturbances in the East.
• Once or twice I thought of making a pilgrimage to the East, but late events had sobered and altered me.
• They rode at a pace hardly above a walk into a small open meadow narrowing at the east.
• On the east side of the main block of buildings there is a grassy slope adorned with chapels that contain figures illustrating scenes in the history of the Virgin.
• They were not spent, it is clear, in rambling in the East, as he tried to persuade Colonel Napier many years later.
• His report, like that of each of the other messengers, was that nothing unusual appeared in the east.
• On the south of the latter place the land turns towards the east.
• As they came in with the land, they spied a sail coming round from the east side of the island.
• Several of the boys were in our confidence, and we had asked them to stroll up and down leisurely between the hut and the east fence.
• It is deemed important that our laws regulating trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes east of the Rocky Mountains should be extended to such tribes as dwell beyond them.
• THRACIA, an extensive region, bounded to the north by Mount Haemus, to the south by the AEgean Sea, and by the Euxine and Propontis to the east.
• The village stocks that used to stand outside the churchyard wall on the east side, near the present schoolhouse, are remembered by the older inhabitants.
• We lived and slept in the saddle, riding east or west, and we ate our worn-out ponies.
• Between them lay a vast, incomparable void, two hundred miles in length, presenting an unbroken panorama to the east and west until the gaze could follow it no farther.
• Its real name, however, is the Riet, of which the Modder is a tributary flowing from the north-west and joining the main stream well to the east of the line.
• Each day in a different quarter of the world, first north, next day west, then south, then east.
• There was to be another window on a side, but whether to the east or the west he could not quite decide.

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