east
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːst/
enpr: ēst
rhymes: -iːst
Forms: form: easts
Etymology: From Middle English est, from Old English ēast, from Proto-West Germanic *austr, from Proto-Germanic *austrą, from Proto-Germanic *austraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwsteros (“east”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots aist (“east”), North Frisian uast, ååst, ööst (“east”), Saterland Frisian Aaste (“east”), West Frisian east (“east”), Dutch oost (“east”), German Ost (“east”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål øst (“east”), Faroese eystur (“east”), Icelandic austur (“east”), Norwegian Nynorsk aust, øst (“east”), Swedish ost, öst, öster (“east”); also with Avestan 𐬎𐬱𐬀𐬯𐬙𐬀𐬭𐬀 (ušastara, “eastern”), Latin auster (“south”).
Senses: examples: text: Portsmouth is to the east of Southampton.
text: We live in the east of the country.
text: The sun rises in the east.
text: The levanter wind is in/from the east.
text: In a few hours the birds come to it from all points of the compass – east, west, north, and south […]
ref: 1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure:
related: word: E
glosses: The direction of the earth's rotation, specifically 90°.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1855, John Reynolds, My Own Times: Embracing Also the History of My Life, page 271:
glosses: The eastern region or area; the inhabitants thereof.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2014 April 11, Paul Porwoll, Against All Odds: History of Saint Andrew's Parish Church, Charleston, 1706–2013, Bloomington, Ind.: WestBow Press, →ISBN, pages 364–365:
text: However, in Mies' chapel, liturgical east is magnetic west.
ref: 2018, Anat Geva, Modernism and American Mid-20th Century Sacred Architecture, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: 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.
ref: 2019, Sarah Hosking, "Coventry Cathedral", in Prickett Stephen Prickett, Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 371:
topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: In a church: the direction of the altar and chancel; the direction faced by the priest when celebrating ad orientem.
Derived terms: Aberdare East
about east
Ascot
Aston
Aurora East
Awang East
back east
Bagong Barrio East
Barangay East
Bath and North East Somerset
Black East Indian
Cabagñan East
Cadcadir East
Canada East
Cansamada East
Carunuan East
Cheshire East
Cosili East
down east
eastabout
East Acton
East Africa
East Allington
East Amwell
East and West Buckland
East Anglia
East Anstey
East Ardsley
East Atlantic peacock wrasse
East Aurora
East Ayrshire
East Azerbaijan
East Barkwith
East Barnet
East Beach
East Bedlington
East Bend
East Bergholt
East Bethlehem
East Boldon
eastbound
East Brent
East Bridgford
East Buckland
East Budleigh
Eastbury
east by north
east by northeast
east by south
East Cambridgeshire
East Carisac
East Carleton
East Carlton
East Carroll Parish
East-Central Europe
East Chevington
East Chicago
East Chinnock
Eastchurch
East Clandon
East Claydon
East Cleveland
East Coker
Eastcote
East Coventry
East Cove Port
East Cowton
East Dallas
East Dean
East Dean and Friston
East Devon
East Didsbury
East Dorset
East Down
East Dubuque
East Dulwich
East Dunbartonshire
East End
easterliness
easterly
eastern
easterner
East Falkland
East Farleigh
East Feliciana Parish
East Finchley
East Fishkill
East Fortune
East Garston
East Garton
East Gippsland
East Glacier Park
East Godavari
East Goscote
East Greenwich
East Grinstead
East Gwillimbury
East Halton
East Hampshire
East Hampton
East Hanningfield
East Hants
East Harling
East Hartford
East Harting
East Haven
East Hendred
East Hertfordshire
East Horndon
East Horsley
East Huntspill
Eastie
eastie
East Indian
East Indies
East Indy
easting
East Kamias
East Kilbride
East Knighton
East Knoyle
East Kootenay
East Lake
Eastlake
East La Mirada
eastland
East Langton
East Lansing
East Lavington
East Leake
East Lindsey
East Linton
East Lockinge
East London
East Lothian
eastly
East Malling
East Malling and Larkfield
East Markham
East Marlborough
East Marmara
East Mead
East Melbourne
East Moline
East Moors
eastmost
East Naples
eastness
East Northamptonshire
east-north-east
east northeast
east-northeast
east-northeasterly
east-northeastern
east-northeastward
east-northeastwards
East Norton
Easton
East Orange
East Palestine
East Peckham
East Penn
East Pennsboro
East Peoria
East Pilbara
East Poblacion
East Pomeranian
Eastport
East Providence
East Quantoxhead
Eastralia
East Region
East Renfrewshire
East Riding
East Runton
East Rutherford
East Saint Louis
East Sheen
Eastside
east side
eastside
east southeast
east-south-east
east-southeast
east-southeasterly
east-southeastern
east-southeastward
east-southeastwards
East Staffordshire
East St. Louis
East Stoke
East Stroudsburg
East Suffolk
East Sussex
East Tilbury
East Timor
East Tisted
East Turkestan
East Turkistan
East Vietnamese Sea
Eastville
eastward
eastwardly
eastwards
East Wemyss
east-west
East Whiteland
east wind
Eastwood
East Woodburn
East Woodhay
East Worthing
East York
East Zorra
Essex
Gabu Norte East
Gilling East
Grace Park East
Highlands East
Holme East Waver
Hugpa East
Ilawod East
Kahayagan East
Kawit-East Washington Drive
Kayan East
Kew East
Kilikili East
La Paz East
Lobe-lobe East
Łódź East
Mangato East
Middle East
Middle East syndrome
Muñoz East
Nangalisan East
nor'-east
nor'-nor'-east
north by east
north-east
northeast
northeast by east
North East Derbyshire
North East Lincolnshire
North-East Region
north-northeast
north-north-east
Pagolingin East
Passage East
Pata East
Perth East
Poblacion East
Rosedale East Side
Sampao East
San Francisco East
San Jose East
Scotland of the East
Silicon Valley of the East Coast
sou'-east
sou'-sou'-east
south by east
southeast
south-east
southeast by east
south-southeast
south-south-east
star in the east
St Newlyn East
Teachers Village East
Valley East