Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A native or inhabitant of the east, especially the eastern United States.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person from the eastern United States.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an inhabitant of an eastern area; especially of the eastern U. S.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A native or inhabitant of the
east of a region (or of the world as a whole), such as one of theeastern United States .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an inhabitant of an eastern area; especially of the U.S.
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Examples
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It also meant some public goods: decent roads, plentiful facilities for outdoor recreation, and the libraries and schools that helped produce the Los Angeles “common man” who, as that jaundiced easterner James M. Cain described him in 1933, “addresses you in easy grammar, completes his sentences, shows familiarity with good manners, and in addition gives you a pleasant smile.”
California Dreamers 2009
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We just had another Esquire reading easterner die in our Wyoming wilderness.
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It is apparent that you are from Florida, which is a perfect example of an easterner who has little firsthand experience with the problem sticking their large nose into the business of others.
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Therefore, I AM PERFECTLY CORRECT when I assert that an easterner has no constitutional right to interfere with land use practices and resource management policies in western states.
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It is apparent that you are from Florida, which is a perfect example of an easterner who has little firsthand experience with the problem sticking their large nose into the business of others.
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It also meant some public goods: decent roads, plentiful facilities for outdoor recreation, and the libraries and schools that helped produce the Los Angeles “common man” who, as that jaundiced easterner James M. Cain described him in 1933, “addresses you in easy grammar, completes his sentences, shows familiarity with good manners, and in addition gives you a pleasant smile.”
California Dreamers 2009
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Inhofe as much more of a terrorist threat to our environment and world peace than any “middle easterner” on an airplane.
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To an easterner, the weather out here has an uncanny consistency, which only adds to the endless sameness.
Famous Todd Strasser 2011
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To an easterner, the weather out here has an uncanny consistency, which only adds to the endless sameness.
Famous Todd Strasser 2011
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Therefore, I AM PERFECTLY CORRECT when I assert that an easterner has no constitutional right to interfere with land use practices and resource management policies in western states.
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