Meaning of east | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The direction of the earth's rotation, specifically 90°.
2. A personification of the wind from the east.
   countable, uncountable
3. The direction of the earth's rotation, specifically 90°
4. The eastern region or area; the inhabitants thereof.
5. The Eastern world; the regions, primarily situated in the Eastern Hemisphere, whose culture is derived from Arabia, India, Persia or China.
   countable, uncountable
6. The eastern region or area; the inhabitants thereof. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
7. In a church: the direction of the altar and chancel; the direction faced by the priest when celebrating ad orientem.
8. In a church: the direction of the altar and chancel; the direction faced by the priest when celebrating ad orientem
9. The Eastern Bloc; the eastern countries of Europe.
   countable, uncountable
10. Situated or lying in or towards the east; eastward
11. the Soviet Union and its socialist allies during the Cold War.
    countable, historical, uncountable
12. Blowing (as wind) from the east
13. The Eastern Roman Empire.
    countable, historical, uncountable
14. That part of the Christian Church whose traditions and practices originated in the former territories of the Eastern Roman Empire, including the Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Catholic Churches, Oriental Orthodox Church, and Church of the East.
    countable, uncountable
15. The eastern states of the United States.
    countable, uncountable
16. The eastern part of any region.
    countable, uncountable
17. A civil parish of Kings County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
    countable, uncountable
18. A surname.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Portsmouth is to the east of Southampton.”

“We live in the east of the country.”

“The sun rises in the east.”

“The levanter wind is in/from the east.”

“In a few hours the birds come to it from all points of the compass – east, west, north, and south […]”

“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.”

“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.”

“However, in Mies' chapel, liturgical east is magnetic west.”

“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.”

“[…] I sat down and wrote, / In such a hand as when a field of corn / Bows all its ears before the roaring East; […]”

“Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within; uneasy rushes of wind went through the hall,[…]. East, West, North, and South, through the woods, four heavy-treading, unkempt figures crushed the high grass and cracked the branches, striding on cautiously to come together in the court-yard.”

“I remember a hearty welcome; a prodigious supper, which would have fed a whole village in the East; […]”

“¹⁰ In any event, Darius' visitors urged him to "establish the statute and sign the writing, in order for it not to be changed, according to the law of the Medes and the Persians, which is not annulled." (Daniel 6:8) In the ancient East, the will of a king was often regarded as absolute. This perpetuated the notion that he was infallible. Even a law that could cause the death of innocent people had to remain in effect!”

“The words may suggest that the Roman rite is in some way superior to those of the East: a fallacy now equally reprobated by Rome.”

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