English Explanatory Dictionary

eastern

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of, facing, situated in, or related to the east.
  2. Blowing from the east; easterly.
  3. Oriental.
adj
  1. Of a region designated as the East by convention or from the perspective of the speaker or author.
  2. Of the Christian churches originating in the church of the Eastern Roman Empire.
  3. Eastern Orthodox.

Pronunciation

/ˈiː.stən/ /ˈi.stɚn/ en-us-eastern.ogg

Word forms

eastern more eastern most eastern easternmost

Etymology

From Middle English esturne, esterne, from Old English ēasterne (“eastern”), from Proto-Germanic *austrōnijaz (“eastern”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-ro- (“eastern”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- (“dawn, east”). Cognate with Old Saxon and Old High German ōstrōni (“eastern”), Old Norse austrœnn (“eastern”). Morphologically east + -ern.

Synonyms

eoan

Related words

northern southern western northeastern southeastern southwestern northwestern

Derived words

Adamawa-Eastern Australian Eastern Daylight Time Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Eastern Armenia eastern baccharis eastern banjo frog eastern bearded dragon Eastern Bloc eastern bluebird Eastern Bontok Eastern Buyagan eastern buzzard Eastern Christian eastern columbine eastern coneflower eastern cottonwood eastern crevice skink eastern crown eastern curlew Eastern Delaware Eastern Desert eastern equine encephalitis easterner Eastern Europe Eastern Friesland Eastern Front eastern gorilla eastern gray squirrel eastern green drake eastern grey kangaroo eastern hemisphere eastern hemlock Eastern Herzegovinian eastern imperial eagle eastern indigo snake easternisation easternise easternism easternization easternize eastern jackrabbit eastern kingsnake eastern leatherwood easternly eastern moa easternmost easternness Eastern Norway eastern olivaceous warbler eastern Orphean warbler Eastern Pacific giant conch Eastern Palestine eastern paradise whydah Eastern parotia eastern pellitory-of-the-wall eastern poison ivy Eastern provinces eastern ratsnake eastern redbud eastern red cedar

Translations

Albanian: lindor Arabic: شَرْقِيّ Arabic: شرقي Arabic: شَرْقي Armenian: արևելյան Azerbaijani: şərqi Azerbaijani: şərq Belarusian: усхо́дні Belarusian: ўсхо́дні Bengali: পূর্ব Bulgarian: и́зточен Burmese: အရှေ့ Catalan: oriental Chinese Mandarin: 東方的 /东方的 Chinese Mandarin: 東 /东 Czech: východní Danish: østlig Danish: østre Dutch: oostelijk Egyptian: iAb-b-y:D41 Esperanto: orienta Estonian: idamaine Estonian: ida- Finnish: itäinen Finnish: itä- French: oriental Georgian: აღმოსავლური Georgian: აღმოსავლეთის Georgian: აღმოსავლეთისა German: östlich German: Ost- Greek: ανατολικός Ancient Greek: ἀνατολικός Hebrew: מִזְרָחִי Hindi: पूर्वी Hindi: पूरबी Hungarian: keleti Icelandic: austur Ingrian: itäin Italian: orientale Japanese: 東の Japanese: 東方の Kazakh: шығыс Khmer: ខាងកើត Korean: 동(東)쪽의 Northern Kurdish: rojhilatî Kyrgyz: чыгыштык Kyrgyz: чыгыш Lao: ຕາເວັນອອກ Latin: orientalis Latvian: austrumu Lithuanian: rytinis Lithuanian: rytų Macedonian: источен Malayalam: കിഴക്കൻ
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