English Explanatory Dictionary

back east

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adv
  1. In the eastern part of a country or region.
  2. In the eastern part of the United States: in the East.

Word forms

back east

Etymology

In American English, the idiomatic establishment of back east and out west, rather than out east and back west, implicitly reflects the history of European settlement of the interior of North America in the 18th and 19th centuries, which involved a prevailing east-to-west gradient.

Antonyms

out west

Related words

back home old country
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