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  • proper noun The wind from the east.
  • proper noun The Eastern world; the regions, primarily situated in the Eastern Hemisphere, whose culture is derived from India or China.
  • proper noun The Eastern Bloc; the eastern countries of Europe.
  • proper noun historical the Soviet Union and its socialist allies during the Cold War.
  • proper noun The eastern states of the United States.
  • proper noun The eastern part of any region.

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Examples

  • She had been born back east, in a small Pennsylvania town, so she wanted to go back East.

    Murray Waas: The Life That Christina-Taylor Green Would Have Lived Murray Waas 2011

  • She had been born back east, in a small Pennsylvania town, so she wanted to go back East.

    Murray Waas: The Life That Christina-Taylor Green Would Have Lived Murray Waas 2011

  • If Russia were to launch a multi-hundred billion dollar box office futures market, opportunities would immediately open up for popular culture to change in ways that would decapitalize the tired Hollywood formula, while simultaneously creating momentum for projects that incorporated views from the mid-east and far east; with Russia acting as a geographic and intellectual bridge between East and West.

    Max Keiser: Why Russia Might Be the Best Place for Box Office Futures 2010

  • If Russia were to launch a multi-hundred billion dollar box office futures market, opportunities would immediately open up for popular culture to change in ways that would decapitalize the tired Hollywood formula, while simultaneously creating momentum for projects that incorporated views from the mid-east and far east; with Russia acting as a geographic and intellectual bridge between East and West.

    Max Keiser: Why Russia Might Be the Best Place for Box Office Futures 2010

  • And Congress can help us do that by giving us corridors east and west out of the wind corridor to the East and West Coast.

    CNN Transcript Jul 8, 2008 2008

  • KING: And let's do this from east to west, because the results will come in from East to West.

    CNN Transcript Feb 5, 2008 2008

  • Perhaps it helps that I live in a semi-arid, warm location - Colorado, east of the Rockies - rather than in the Midwest, East or South, where apparently humidity makes the process painful.

    Tobacco Farmers and Clotheslines - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

  • RE: #1 – Technically, the following parts of California are part of the Great Basin – the thin strip north of Tahoe along the Nevada border, east of the Warner Mts / Sierra Nevada; the Tahoe Basin; the intermontaine valleys and basins south of Tahoe and East of the Sierra crest e.g.

    NAS Panel #2: Bristlecones « Climate Audit 2006

  • What makes this EAST of Eastern Europe-based "western civ" such "essential knowledge" today, especially for people living in the southWESTern U.S. facing East and doing business daily with the new awakened economies of the far East another misnomer, across the Pacific.

    Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Monday 2006

  • He was the head alector of finance in the east, and the High Alector of the East was under his personal shadowmatch.

    Cadmian's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2006

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