eastern

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She had two rooms in the western arm of the E; the whole of the eastern was his.

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  1. adjective Situated in, toward, or facing the east.
  2. adjective Coming from the east: eastern breezes.
  3. adjective Native to or growing in the east.

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  1. Middle English estern, from Old English ēasterne; see aus- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English esterne, æsterne, from Anglo-Saxon eásterne (= Old Saxon ōstrōni = Old High German ōstrōni = Icelandic austrænn, eastern), from *eástor, eást = Old Saxon ōstar, etc., east: see east, n. and a. Cf. western, northern, southern.
 

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