Usually means: Direction opposite west; sun rises.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. east, the East, the east: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. East, east, the East: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. east: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. east, the east: Collins English Dictionary
  5. East, east: Vocabulary.com
  6. East, east: Wordnik
  7. East, east, the East: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. East, east: Wiktionary
  9. east: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. east: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. east: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. East, east, east, the East, the east: Dictionary.com
  13. east: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. east: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. EAST, East (Cold Chisel album), East (European Parliament constituency), East (Justin Rutledge album), East (The Walking Dead), East (U.S.), East (disambiguation), East (novel), East (play), East (surname), East, East, The East (Brooklyn), The East (TV series), The East (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. EAST: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  17. East: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. east: Free Dictionary
  19. east: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. The East, east: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. east: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  22. east: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. The East: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  24. East: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  25. east: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  26. East: Rhymezone
  27. east: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)
  2. East: Dictionary of Symbolism

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. The East, east: Encyclopedia
  2. EAST: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. EAST: Acronym Finder
  3. EAST: Masonic Dictionary
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. The East, east: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. East: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  2. East: Easton Bible

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. EAST: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. EAST: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. East: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The direction of the earth's rotation, specifically 90°.
noun:  The eastern region or area; the inhabitants thereof.
noun:  (ecclesiastical) In a church: the direction of the altar and chancel; the direction faced by the priest when celebrating ad orientem.
adjective:  Situated or lying in or towards the east; eastward.
adjective:  (meteorology) Blowing (as wind) from the east.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to the east; eastern.
adjective:  From the East; oriental.
adjective:  (ecclesiastical) Designating, or situated in, the liturgical east.
adverb:  towards the east; eastwards
noun:  A personification of the wind from the east.
noun:  The Eastern world; the regions, primarily situated in the Eastern Hemisphere, whose culture is derived from Arabia, India, Persia or China.
noun:  The Eastern Bloc; the eastern countries of Europe.
noun:  (historical) the Soviet Union and its socialist allies during the Cold War.
noun:  The eastern states of the United States.
noun:  The eastern part of any region.
noun:  A civil parish of Kings County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
noun:  A surname.

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