east
/iːst/ noun A2- The direction of the earth's rotation, specifically 90°. · Portsmouth is to the east of Southampton.· We live in the east of the country.
- The eastern region or area; the inhabitants thereof.
- In a church: the direction of the altar and chancel; the direction faced by the priest when celebrating ad orientem.
Plural easts
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Behold the gorgeous East was there!
In the great and busy city where the East and West are met,
The girl, after leaving her entertainer, sped swiftly cross-town until she arrived at a handsome and sedate mansion two squares to the east, facing on that avenue which is the highway of Mammon and the auxiliary gods.
Its windows looked east and west; through the west one, looking out on the back yard, came a flood of mellow June sunlight; but the east one, whence you got a glimpse of the bloom white cherry-trees in the left orchard and nodding, slender birches down in the hollow by the brook, was greened over by a tangle of vines.
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