• Czech: východní
• Dutch: oostelijk
• Esperanto: orienta
• Finnish: itä- (in compounds), itäinen
• French: d'est, de l'est
• Greek: ανατολικός
• Italian: orientale
• Maltese: tal-lvant
• Polish: wschodni
• Portuguese: oriental
• Slovak: východný
• Swedish: ostlig, östlig
• Turkish: doğulu
• Welsh: dwyreiniol
• West Frisian: eastlik

• Czech: východní
• Dutch: oosters
• Esperanto: orienta
• Finnish: itäinen, orientaalinen, orientaali- (in compounds)
• French: oriental, orientale
• Greek: ανατολικός
• Italian: da est
• Maltese: mil-lvant
• Polish: wschodni
• Portuguese: oriental
• Swedish: österländsk, orientalisk
• Turkish: doğudan
• Welsh: o'r dwyrain

Adverb

1. towards the east; eastwards

Synonyms

• sense towards the east eastwards

Antonyms

• sense towards the east west. westwards

Translations

Translations to be checked

• ttbc Basque: sortialdeko, ekialdeko
• ttbc Estonian: idapoolne, ida-, Ida-
• ttbc Interlingua: del est, oriental
• ttbc Spanish: oriental & , (con) rumbo este, (con) rumbo al este/oriente, hacia el este/oriente, hacia oriente, al este/oriente.

Derived terms

• easterliness
• easterly
• eastern
• easterner
• easting
• eastward
• eastwardly
• eastwards
• northeast
• north-northeast
• southeast
• south-southeast

Related terms

• north
• south
• west

Anagrams

• eats
• sate
• seat
• seta
• teas

Old English

Pronunciation

/æ:ast/|lang=ang

Etymology

Common *austam from the root . Cognate with Old Frisian āst, Old Saxon ost (Dutch oost, Old High German ōst (German Osten, Old Norse austr The IE root is also the source of Latin auster, Latvian austrumi, Common Slavic *utro

Noun

1. the east

Adjective

1. eastern, easterly

Adverb

1. from the east
2. towards the east

West Frisian

Noun

1. east

Adjective

1. east, eastern, easterly

East is a direction in geography. It is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points, opposite of west and at right angles to north and south. East is the direction toward which the Earth rotates about its axis, and therefore the general direction from which the Sun appears to rise.

The etymology of east is from a Proto-Indo-European language word for dawn, *hausos. Cf. Latin aurora and Greek eōs. Eostre, a Germanic goddess of dawn, might have been a personification of both dawn and the cardinal point.

By convention, an ordinary terrestrial map is oriented so the right side is east. This convention dates from the Renaissance. Many medieval maps were oriented with the Orient (the East) east at the top, which is the source of the verb orient.

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