eastern

Definition of eastern in English English dictionary: blowing from the east; easterly; Of, facing, situated in, or related to the east
While De Anza was exploring the Bay of San Francisco, seeking a site for the presidio, the American colonists on the eastern seaboard, three thousand miles away, were celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.; oriental; {a} of or belonging to the east; {s} related to the east; situated in the east; coming from or proceeding toward the east; BLOC: formerly, the group of nations led by the Soviet Union, whose general theory of government was communism; Eastern means coming from or associated with the people or countries of the East, such as India, China, or Japan. In many Eastern countries massage was and is a part of everyday life. see also Middle Eastern. adj. Adamawa Eastern languages Eastern Air Lines Inc. Eastern Hemisphere Eastern Indian bronze Eastern Orthodoxy Eastern rite church Eastern Catholic church Eastern Woodlands Indian Ghats Eastern and Western Tonghak Korean: Eastern Learning; Going toward the east, or in the direction of east; as, an eastern voyage; of or characteristic of eastern regions of the United States; "the Eastern establishment"; of or characteristic of eastern regions of the United States; "the Eastern establishment; UTC - 5 hours UTC - 4 hours; relating to or characteristic of regions of eastern parts of the world; "the Eastern Hemisphere"; "Eastern Europe"; "the Eastern religions"; Situated or dwelling in the east; oriental; as, an eastern gate; Eastern countries; lying toward or situated in the east; "the eastern end of the island"; lying toward or situated in the east; "the eastern end of the island" relating to or characteristic of regions of eastern parts of the world; "the Eastern Hemisphere"; "Eastern Europe"; "the Eastern religions" of or characteristic of eastern regions of the United States; "the Eastern establishment; Eastern means in or from the east of a region, state, or country. Eastern Europe. France's eastern border with Germany; lying in or toward the east; "the east side of NY"; "eastern cities"; from the east; used especially of winds; "an east wind"; "the winds are easterly"; easter; levant
Eastern Arabic: An Arabic dialect continuum spoken throughout the Levant
Eastern Arabic numeral: Any of the ten symbols ٠,١,٢,٣,٤,٥,٦,٧, and ٨ used to represent numbers
Eastern Arabic numerals: plural form of Eastern Arabic numeral
Eastern Armenian: One of the main two dialects of modern Armenian language, the other being Western Armenian. It is the official language of the Republic of Armenia and is the dialect spoken by Armenian diaspora in CIS countries and Iran. It developed in the 19th century in Russian Armenia
Eastern Balochi: A variety of Balochi language, spoken mainly in Pakistan, where it has about 2 million speakers
Eastern Bengali: One of the two major groups of Bengali dialects, spoken to the east of the Padma River, particularly in Bangladesh
Eastern Europe: A socio-politic geographical area of eastern Europe usually including the European countries to the east of the Czech Republic, Poland and the Balkans, and to the west of the Urals
The Slavic peoples' ancestors entered Eastern Europe between the 5th and 7th centuries from their original common homeland.
Eastern European: An Eastern European person; one who comes from or lives in Eastern Europe
Eastern European: Of, from, or pertaining to Eastern Europe, its people, or its culture
Eastern European Time: the time of day in the time zone that encompasses many countries in Eastern Europe the Middle East and North Africa
Eastern Europeans: plural form of Eastern European
Eastern Farsi: Dari, the dialect of the Persian language as spoken by approximately one-third of the population of Afghanistan; also referred to as Eastern Persian, Afghan Persian, or simply Persian
Eastern Hemisphere: The hemisphere of the Earth to the east of the Greenwich Meridian (zero degree longitude) and west of 180 degrees longitude (approximately the International Date Line)
Eastern Orthodox: Pertaining to the faith, practices, etc. of the Eastern Orthodox Church
Eastern Orthodox Church: One of the three major divisions of Christianity derived from the Byzantine Church; it comprises the Greek Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church and others
Eastern Orthodoxy: The faith, practices, etc. of the Eastern Orthodox Church
Eastern Standard Time: The timezone that encompasses the East coast of the United States, and parts of Canada during the winter, it is five hours behind Greenwich Mean Time
Eastern-rigged: With wheel house in the rear of the deck
eastern gorilla: One of the two extant gorilla species, originally considered to be a subspecies
eastern gorillas: plural form of eastern gorilla
eastern grey kangaroo: A species of kangaroo, with a distinctive soft grey coat, scientific name Macropus giganteus
eastern hemisphere: Alternative spelling of Eastern Hemisphere
eastern jackrabbit: A term used of European hare, Lepus europaeus, in Eastern North America, originating from European hares that escaped from a farm
eastern jackrabbits: plural form of Eastern jackrabbit
eastern red cedar: A species of juniper, Juniperus virginiana
eastern tarantula: is a species of tarantula native to North Queensland, Australia
eastern tarantulas: plural form of eastern tarantula
eastern tent caterpillar: Malacosoma americanum, a univoltine social caterpillar inhabiting communal nests in the branches of trees
Eastern Cape: {i} province in South Africa
Eastern Caribbean dollar: currency of various Caribbean countries
Eastern Conference: a group of professional basketball teams from the eastern part of the US, which play against one another. Together with the Western Conference, a similar group from the western US, these teams form the NBA (=National Basketball Association)
Eastern Empire: Byzantine Empire, East Roman Empire, successor to the Roman Empire after the separation of the eastern and western sections of the empire in 395 AD (lasted till 1453 AD)
Eastern Empire: The Byzantine Empire
Eastern Europe: The countries of eastern Europe, especially those that were allied with the USSR in the Warsaw Pact, which was established in 1955 and dissolved in 1991. the part of Europe whose countries formerly had Communist governments and close political connections with the former Soviet Union, including countries such as Poland, East Germany, Hungary and Romania European
Eastern Europe: eastern section of Europe (much of which was formerly part of the Soviet Union)
Eastern Hemisphere: The half of the earth comprising Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Part of the Earth east of the Atlantic Ocean. It includes Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. Longitudes 20° W and 160° E are often considered its boundaries
Eastern Indian bronze: or Pala bronze Metal sculptures produced from the 9th century in the area of modern Bihar and West Bengal in India, extending into Bangladesh. Made of an alloy of eight metals and produced by lost-wax casting, they represent various divinities (e.g., Shiva, Vishnu) and are small and portable. Produced in the great Buddhist monasteries and distributed throughout South Asia, they influenced the art of Burma (Myanmar), Siam (Thailand), and Java
Eastern Orthodox Church: The body of modern churches, including among others the Greek and Russian Orthodox, that is derived from the church of the Byzantine Empire, adheres to the Byzantine rite, and acknowledges the honorary primacy of the patriarch of Constantinople. Orthodox Church
Eastern Orthodox Church: {i} branch of Christianity in Eastern Europe which does not recognize priests as religious figures
Eastern Orthodoxy: officially Orthodox Catholic Church One of the three major branches of Christianity. Its adherents live mostly in Greece, Russia, the Balkans, Ukraine, and the Middle East, with a large following in North America and Australia. The titular head of Eastern Orthodoxy is the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople (Istanbul), but its many territorial churches (including the huge Russian Orthodox church and the Greek Orthodox church) are governed autonomously by head bishops or patriarchs, who must be unmarried or widowed even though lower orders of the clergy may marry. Eastern Orthodoxy also boasts a strong monastic tradition. The separation of the Eastern churches from the Western, or Latin, branch began with the division of the Roman Empire into two parts under Constantine I. A formal break was made in 1054 (see Schism of 1054). Doctrinally, Eastern Orthodoxy differs from Roman Catholicism in that it does not accept the primacy of the pope or the clause in the Western creed that states that the Holy Spirit proceeds from both the Father (God) and the Son (Jesus). The Orthodox church accepts the decisions of the seven ecumenical councils as well as several later ones. It maintains that there are seven sacraments and has a worship service that is theologically and spiritually rich. In the early 21st century, Eastern Orthodoxy had more than 200 million adherents worldwide
Eastern Roman Empire: Byzantine Empire, successor to the Roman Empire after the separation of the eastern and western sections of the empire in 395 AD (lasted till 1453 AD)
Eastern Shore: areas in the United States of America that are located by the Atlantic Ocean
Eastern Shore: A region of Maryland and Virginia east of Chesapeake Bay
Eastern Standard Time: Standard time in the fifth time zone west of Greenwich, England, reckoned at 75° west and used, for example, in the eastern part of North America. Also called Eastern Time
Eastern Standard Time: time zone for the U.S. states and Canadian provinces located on or near the Atlantic seacoast, EST
Eastern Woodlands Indian: Any member of the various North American Indian peoples of the largely wooded area stretching east from the Mississippi River valley to the Atlantic coastline and extending north into Canada and south as far as what are now the U.S. states from Illinois to North Carolina. The Indians in this region spoke Iroquoian, Algonquian, and Siouan languages. The heaviest population concentrations were near or along the seacoast, lakes, ponds, marshes, creeks, and rivers. There animals could be hunted, fish caught, birds taken, leaves, seeds, and roots of wild plants gathered, shellfish collected, and crops grown. Certain areas were favoured with resources not found elsewhere in the region. In certain parts of the upper Great Lakes area, wild rice (Zizania aquatica) grew in abundance, and the Menominee especially depended on it. In addition to the Menominee, Eastern Woodlands groups include the Abenaki, Woodland Cree, Delaware, Fox, Huron, Illinois, Iroquois, Mohican, Miami, Micmac, Mohawk, Mohegan, Montagnais and Naskapi, Ojibwa, Oneida, Ottawa, Pequot, Powhatan, Sauk, Seneca, Tuscarora, and Winnebago
Eastern and Western Ghats: Two mountain ranges forming the edges of the Deccan plateau in southern India. The Eastern Ghats extend about 500 mi (800 km) along the southeastern and eastern coast north to the mouth of the Mahanadi River; their average elevation is about 2,000 ft (600 m). The Western Ghats run 800 mi (1,290 km) along the southwestern and western coast north to the mouth of the Tapti River; their elevations range from 3,000 ft (900 m) to 5,000 ft (1,500 m). Because they receive heavy rainfall during the monsoon season, the Western Ghats comprise peninsular India's principal watershed
Eastern bloc: another name for the East bloc
Eastern philosophy: {i} philosophies of the East (Japan, China, India, Korea and somewhat Iran)
Eastern rite church: or Eastern Catholic church Any of several Eastern Christian churches that trace their origins to ethnic or national Eastern churches but are united with the Roman Catholic church (see Roman Catholicism). A few of these churches became associated with Rome in the 12th century, but most trace their origins to the failure to unite Eastern and Western churches at the Council of Ferrara-Florence in 1439 or to churches that rejoined Rome in the 16th century or later. Eastern rite churches acknowledge the authority of the pope but are allowed to use their own ancient liturgies and to maintain rites and customs more typical of Eastern Orthodoxy, such as allowing priests to marry and admitting infants to Holy Communion. The Eastern rite includes the Ukrainian Orthodox church, the Maronite Church, and some Armenians, Ruthenians, and Melchites (in Syria). Today Eastern Catholics number more than 12 million
eastern bloc: former Soviet Union and its satellite countries, union of Communist countries
eastern camass: A bulbous plant (Camassia scilloides) native to the eastern United States, having white, blue, or violet flowers and bright yellow anthers. Also called indigo squill, wild hyacinth
eastern catholicism: the beliefs and practices of any of the eastern Catholic Churches based in Constantinople or Antioch or Alexandria or Moscow or Jerusalem
eastern chimpanzee: long-haired chimpanzees of east-central Africa; closely related to the central chimpanzees
eastern chipmunk: small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches
eastern church: the Catholic Church as it existed in the Byzantine Empire
eastern church: The Eastern Church accepts the first seven ecumenical councils (and is hence styled only schismatic, not heretical, by the Roman Catholic Church), has as its creed the Niceno-Constantinopolitan (without the later addition of the filioque, which, with the doctrine it represents, the church decisively rejects), baptizes infants with trine immersion, makes confirmation follow immediately upon baptism, administers the Communion in both kinds (using leavened bread) and to infants as well as adults, permits its secular clergy to marry before ordination and to keep their wives afterward, but not to marry a second time, selects its bishops from the monastic clergy only, recognizes the offices of bishop, priest, and deacon as the three necessary degrees of orders, venerates relics and icons, and has an elaborate ritual
eastern church: {i} Catholic churches originating in countries that formerly formed part of the Byzantine Empire; the Orthodox church
eastern church: That portion of the Christian church which prevails in the countries once comprised in the Eastern Roman Empire and the countries converted to Christianity by missionaries from them
eastern church: Its full official title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern Church
eastern church: The Eastern Church consists of twelve (thirteen if the Bulgarian Church be included) mutually independent churches (including among these the Hellenic Church, or Church of Greece, and the Russian Church), using the vernacular (or some ancient form of it) in divine service and varying in many points of detail, but standing in full communion with each other and united as equals in a great federation
eastern church: It became estranged from the Western, or Roman, Church over the question of papal supremacy and the doctrine of the filioque, and a separation, begun in the latter part of the 9th century, became final in 1054
eastern church: The highest five authorities are the patriarch of Constantinople, or ecumenical patriarch (whose position is not one of supremacy, but of precedence), the patriarch of Alexandria, the patriarch of Jerusalem, the patriarch of Antioch, and the Holy Synod of Russia
eastern coral snake: ranges from Central America to southeastern United States
eastern cottontail: widely distributed in United States except northwest and far west regions
eastern cottonwood: a common poplar of eastern and central United States; cultivated in United States for its rapid growth and luxuriant foliage and in Europe for timber
eastern cricket frog: cricket frog of eastern United States
eastern dasyure: a variety of dasyure
eastern fence lizard: small active lizard of United States and north to British Columbia
eastern gray squirrel: common medium-large squirrel of eastern North America; now introduced into England
eastern ground snake: in some classifications placed in genus Haldea; small reddish-gray snake of eastern North America
eastern hemisphere: the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia
eastern hemisphere: eastern half of the globe, hemisphere that includes Asia Africa Europe and Australia
eastern hemlock: common forest tree of the eastern United States and Canada; used especially for pulpwood
eastern hop hornbeam: medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America
eastern indigo snake: a variety of indigo snake
eastern kingbird: a kingbird that breeds in North American and winters in tropical America; distinguished by a white band on the tip of the tail
eastern lowland gorilla: a kind of gorilla
eastern meadowlark: a meadowlark of eastern North America
eastern narrow-mouthed toad: small toad of southeastern United States
eastern pipistrel: one of the smallest bats of eastern North America
eastern poison oak: poisonous shrub of southeastern United States causing a rash on contact
eastern red cedar: small juniper found east of Rocky Mountains having a conic crown, brown bark that peels in shreds, and small sharp needles
eastern red-backed salamander: common salamander of eastern North America
eastern silvery aster: a variety of aster
eastern standard time: standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern United States
eastern time: standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern United States
eastern wall: wall that faces east
eastern woodrat: large grayish-brown wood rat of the southeastern United States
Australian Eastern Standard Time: The timezone used in eastern Australia of GMT+10: 00 comprised of 4 states. Queensland is the only state to remain constant through daylight savings time while the others transition to GMT+11: 00
Middle Eastern: of, or relating to the Middle East
north-eastern: Of, facing, situated in, or related to the north-east
north-eastern: blowing from the north-east; north-easterly
south-eastern: blowing from the south-east; south-easterly
south-eastern: Of, facing, situated in, or related to the south-east
Inc. Eastern Air Lines: Former U.S. airline that served primarily the eastern U.S. Founded in 1928 as Pitcairn Aviation, Inc., it was incorporated in 1938 with Eddie Rickenbacker as its president. It flourished for several decades, adding flights to the Caribbean and South America. Severe financial reverses in the mid-1980s led to its sale to Texas Air Corp. in 1986 and its liquidation in 1991
Middle Eastern: Middle Eastern means relating to the Middle East. Most Middle Eastern countries have extremely high rates of population growth
Middle Eastern cooking: style of cooking popular in the Middle East
Tonghak Korean: Eastern Learning: formerly Tonghak (Korean: "Eastern Learning") (Korean; "Religion of the Heavenly Way") Korean religion combining elements of Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, shamanism, and Roman Catholicism. Its basic principle that "man and God are one" is realized through faith in the unity of one's body and spirit and in the universality of God. Converts are instructed to meditate on God, pray upon leaving and entering home, dispel harmful thoughts, and worship God in church on Sundays. Ch'oe Che-u (1824-64) established the religion in 1860 after receiving inspiration from the Heavenly Emperor (Ch'ngju). His efforts at social change led to his execution. His successor, Ch'oe Si-hy ng, was executed following the Tonghak Uprising. Today Ch'ndogyo has about three million adherents
easternmost: The easternmost part of an area or the easternmost place is the one that is farthest towards the east. furthest east
easternmost: {s} located furthest to the east
easternmost: farthest to the east
easternmost: Most eastern
easternmost: Farthest east
middle eastern: of or relating to or located in the Middle East
north-eastern: North-eastern means in or from the north-east of a region or country. the north-eastern coast of the United States
south eastern: {s} of or pertaining to the southeast; facing toward the southeast; coming from the southeast; of or pertaining to the southeastern region of the United States
south-eastern: South-eastern means in or from the south-east of a region or country. this city on the south-eastern edge of the United States

eastern

Hyphenation

east·ern

Turkish pronunciation

istırn

Synonyms

easterly, eastward, on the east side of, east

Pronunciation

/ˈēstərn/ /ˈiːstɜrn/

Etymology

[ 'E-st&rn ] (adjective.) before 12th century. From Middle English esterne, from Old English ēasterne (“eastern”), from Proto-Germanic *austrōnjaz (“eastern”), from Proto-Indo-European *austero- (“eastern”), from Proto-Indo-European *aus- (“to shine”). Cognate with Old Saxon and Old High German ōstrōni (“eastern”), Old Norse austroenn (“eastern”). More at east.