East
East is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. East is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points. It is the opposite of west and is perpendicular to north and south.
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... also Raedwald or Redwald, (died around 624) was a 7th century king of East Anglia, a long-lived Anglo-Saxon kingdom which today includes the English counties of Norfolk ... He was the son of Tytila of East Anglia and a member of the Wuffingas dynasty (named after his grandfather, Wuffa), who were the first kings of the East Angles ... because the Viking invasions of the 9th century destroyed the monasteries in East Anglia, where many documents would have been kept ...
... The term Levant, which first appeared in English in 1497, originally meant the East in general or "Mediterranean lands east of Italy" ... Most notably, "Orient" and its Latin source oriens meaning "east", is literally "rising", deriving from Latin orior "rise" ...
... The Middle East (Arabic الشرق الأوسط, alshrq alāwsṭ Armenian Միջին Արևելք, Merdzavor Arevelk’ Azerbaijani Orta Şərq French Moyen-Orient ... to be Eurocentric and used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East ... The largest ethnic group in the middle east are Arabs ...
... Few sources have survived that were written by the Anglo-Saxons in England and East Anglia has even less documentary evidence than most of the ... that the reason for the paucity of East Anglian sources was almost certainly the Viking expansion in the 9th century and that the monks and scribes of East Anglia produced as much work ... The devastation in East Anglia caused by the Vikings is thought to have destroyed all the books and charters that may have been kept there ...
... Union County, New Jersey, and was to intersect I-78 at the east end of the Williamsburg Bridge in Brooklyn. 895 and a proposed extension to Interstate 95, while Interstate 278 east of I-895 was I-878 ... unsigned designation for part of New York State Route 878, a short east–west freeway on the north edge of Kennedy Airport ...
More definitions of "East":
- (noun): The countries of Asia.
Synonyms: Orient
- (adv): To, toward, or in the east.
Example: "We travelled east for several miles"
- (noun): The region of the United States lying north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River.
Synonyms: eastern United States
Famous quotes containing the word east:
“I know no East or West, North or South, when it comes to my class fighting the battle for justice. If it is my fortune to live to see the industrial chain broken from every workingman’s child in America, and if then there is one black child in Africa in bondage, there shall I go.”
—Mother Jones (1830–1930)
“Once did She hold the gorgeous East in fee;
And was the safeguard of the West:”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself.”
—Dee Brown (b. 1908)