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Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word east. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in east.
Definitions and meaning of east
east
Etymology
From Middle Englishest, from Old Englishēast, from Proto-Germanic*austrą, from Proto-Indo-European*h₂ews-.
Compare West Frisianeast, Dutchoost, GermanOst, Norwegian Nynorskaust, Swedishöst.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /iːst/, enPR: ēst
Rhymes: -iːst
Noun
east (countable and uncountable, pluraleasts)
One of the four principal compass points, specifically 90°, conventionally directed to the right on maps; the direction of the rising sun at an equinox. Abbreviated as E.
1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
In a few hours the birds come to it from all points of the compass – east, west, north, and south […]
The eastern region or area; the inhabitants thereof. [circa 1300]
1855, John Reynolds, My Own Times: Embracing Also the History of My Life, page 271:
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.
(ecclesiastical) In a church: the direction of the altar and chancel; the direction faced by the priest when celebrating ad orientem.
2014, Paul Porwoll, Against All Odds: History of Saint Andrew's Parish Church, Charleston, 1706-2013, WestBow Press (→ISBN), page 365:
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 ecclesiasticaleast (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.
2018, Anat Geva, Modernism and American Mid-20th Century Sacred Architecture, Routledge (→ISBN)
However, in Mies' chapel, liturgical east is magnetic west.
2019, Sarah Hosking, "Coventry Cathedral", in Prickett Stephen Prickett, Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts, Edinburgh University Press (→ISBN), page 371:
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.
Coordinate terms
(compass points)
Derived terms
Translations
Also see Appendix:Cardinal directions for translations of all compass points
Adjective
east (not comparable)
Situated or lying in or towards the east; eastward.
(meteorology) Blowing (as wind) from the east.
Of or pertaining to the east; eastern.
From the East; oriental.
(ecclesiastical) Designating, or situated in, the liturgical east.
the east front of a cathedral
2014, Paul Porwoll, Against All Odds: History of Saint Andrew's Parish Church, Charleston, 1706-2013, WestBow Press (→ISBN), page 365:
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.
2019, Sarah Hosking, "Coventry Cathedral", in Prickett Stephen Prickett, Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts, Edinburgh University Press (→ISBN), page 371:
The tapestry by Graham Sutherland that occupies the whole wall of the liturgical east and geographic north of the cathedral is recognisable […] a huge image of Christ on the [liturgical] east end, filling the entire wall and to be visible through the [liturgical] West Window (Fig. 24.2).
Synonyms
(situated or lying in or towards the east):eastward
(meteorology: wind from the east):easterly
(of or pertaining to the east):eastern
(from the East):oriental
Antonyms
(situated or lying in or towards the east):westward
From Proto-Germanic*austrą, from Proto-Indo-European*h₂ews-(“eastern”). Cognate with Old Frisianāst, Old Saxonost, Dutchoost, Old High Germanōst, GermanOsten, Old Norseaustr. The Indo-European root is also the source of Latinauster(“southerly”) and aurora(“dawn”), Latvianaustrumi(“easterly”), Albanianag(“dawn, early morning; black mark round the eyes”), Proto-Slavic*utro.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /æ͜ɑːst/
Noun
ēastm
the east
Declension
Descendants
Middle English: est
English: east
Scots: eist, aist
→ Old French: est
French: est
→ Asturian: este
→ Catalan: est
→ Corsican: este, est
→ Galician: leste
→ Italian: est
→ Occitan: èst
→ Portuguese: este, →leste
→ Romanian: est
→ Spanish: este
Adjective
ēast
eastern, easterly
Declension
Adverb
ēast
from the east
towards the east
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisianāst, from Proto-Germanic*austrą.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /i.əst/
Adjective
east
east, eastern, easterly
Inflection
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading
“east”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Noun
eastn (plural [please provide])
east
Further reading
“east”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Noun
eastc (plural [please provide])
east, eastern former colonies
Further reading
“east”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011