EASTERN


Meaning of EASTERN in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

eastern/southern etc extremity of sth

the southern extremity of New Zealand

eastern/western/Pacific etc seaboard

the eastern seaboard of the US

the eastern/northern etc slopes of sth

Vines are grown on the eastern slopes of Mont Bernon.

the southern/eastern etc border

They renewed their attacks on Ethiopia’s northern border.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

bank

It sits amid wide lawns and giant cedar trees high above the eastern banks of the wide and winding River Dart.

Western banks gained 67 % for the year and eastern banks jumped 64 %.

Even so, Bicker and Luib had to hunt on the eastern bank to supplement what food they had left.

A group photo showed his tank company on the eastern bank of the Rhine River.

Proceeding north along a plateau high above the eastern bank of the river, he had stumbled upon the Nez Perce.

The last battle was only ten miles east of Vicksburg on the eastern bank of the Big Black.

border

The bad dream had been there all the time, of course, up in the jungles on the eastern border .

On his eastern border , Ine brought pressure to bear on the eastern Saxons who were sheltering exiles from his kingdom.

For the eastern border of the Saxons was the River Elbe, and that too was an artery of Saxon communication.

bosnia

Gen Morillon was also negotiating with local commanders yesterday to try to get aid convoys moving again in eastern Bosnia .

city

Experts also point to the oil and gas pipelines that feed the eastern cities .

coast

His findings mirror those of other studies elsewhere on the eastern coast .

The island's best beaches lie along the norther and eastern coasts with plenty of sand to choose from.

It will become misty near some eastern coasts .

The mainland of Yvresse lies along the eastern coast of Ulthuan but the realm also encompasses the islands of the Eastern Ocean.

county

The Somerset commoners succeeded in fighting off most attempts at drainage where their contemporaries in the eastern counties had failed.

He returned to the medicine trade and peddled his goods throughout London and the eastern counties .

Migration from the eastern counties , while on a smaller scale, was forced by no less desperate circumstances.

Completion of the eastern counties railway network removed the last barrier; now labour was prepared to move rather than tolerate chronic want.

edge

Louth Park Abbey was founded on the eastern edge of the town in 1139.

Built for horse carts, it linked the eastern edge of the village with the fields.

The Constellation crashed on Auchinweet Farm, on the eastern edge of Tarbolton parish, about 5 miles east of the airport.

Or so it was until the white man first appeared, out of the forests on the grasslands' eastern edge .

About 1,000 protesters, many from groups that were active in Seattle, demonstrated at the eastern edge of the village.

The campus is located on the eastern edge of Walt Disney World.

Ostermark Ostermark is a large and mostly rural province, lying at the north eastern edge of the Empire.

I headed back toward the eastern edge of town.

end

The whole eastern end was sealed off.

Three days later we held a service on the beach at Sagaponack near the eastern end of Long Island.

Round the eastern end is an ambulatory with radiating chapels.

The eastern end of the church has an apse of Byzantine form, that is, semi-circular inside and polygonal outside.

Thwing is a small village on the eastern end of the Wolds of East Yorkshire.

Internal divisions were positioned at the eastern ends sub-dividing 1/3 or 1/5 of the area.

An infants school, at the eastern end , was completed in 1850 and closed in 1923.

The association reported one item of progress, welcoming the recent closure order for the eastern end of Fairview Road.

extremity

The yard was situated at the eastern extremity of Polruan, where the forest rises steeply from the water's edge.

half

The eastern half was a warehouse, a storey higher than the mill and built later, around 1890.

The most southerly of the three enclosures had also been subdivided, although little of its eastern half lay within the trench.

Through such Promethean effort, the eastern half of the continent was radically made over, for better or worse.

After her experience in Managua, Kegl wondered whether deaf people in the remote eastern half of the country had a language.

Carrillo controls the eastern half of the 2, 000-mile border, the Arellanos the western half.

part

This granodiorite temper was found to be similar to the outcrop close to Mountsorrel on the eastern part of Charnwood Forest.

While design work is continuing on all sections of the bridge, the eastern part poses the most problems.

Drier weather will follow south with sunny spells, particularly in the more eastern parts .

Only six of the 10 tracts are expected to attract strong attention, mostly in the eastern part of the country.

The peak of Mount Etna dominates the eastern part of the island.

We were in Agusan del Sur, in the eastern part of the island.

Industrial estates in the eastern parts of the town will be regenerated by offering grants and business advice.

The reverse is happening in the eastern part of the Ocean.

region

Food and medical supplies are desperately needed in the whole eastern region .

Chemical has traditionally concentrated its underwriting activity in New York and the eastern region .

Most of the people live in the eastern region .

seaboard

The new port at Laem Chabang, on the eastern seaboard , was scheduled for completion in 1991.

Along the eastern seaboard , army units were moved from northern states into the South to prevent suspected insurrection.

The effects of the storm rippled through the economy of New York and the eastern seaboard , punishing some, rewarding others.

She carried with her the values of the eastern seaboard , sought to perpetuate them, and succeeded.

shore

It does so when the eye catches the castle of Rapperswil towards the end of the lake on the eastern shore .

Almost overnight, it transformed this sleepy village on the eastern shores of Baja California Sur.

Thus, the eastern shore is saltier than the western shore.

As the eastern shore of the future United States became the new landscape, it awaited the new pilgrims.

Meg sat facing him, looking across at the eastern shore .

As we rounded the lake's southern edge and moved up to the eastern shore , a faint tinkle filled the air.

Situated on the eastern shore of the lake with a backdrop of terraced vineyards, olive groves and cypress trees.

We are an odd collection assembled here, stuck fast like stubborn limpets to that eastern shore throughout the winter.

side

Our plot occupied a compact square nested in a palm of earth on the eastern side of the river.

Although this road emerges on the eastern side of the town, attempts to trace it much further have failed.

We made a mistake putting it on the eastern side .

There are also liquid fertilizer mixing plants strategically placed on the eastern side of the country.

The atmosphere of grey repression that clung to the eastern side of the city is being purged at an astonishing speed.

Their site is over the sea west of Wrath, at the eastern side of the Isle of Lewis.

sky

The brain drifts back to full consciousness now that there is a vague hint of light spreading across the eastern sky .

The second celestial apparition was a faint, pearly cone of light slanting up the eastern sky .

Low in the eastern sky was a sliver of white.

But I saw torches moving, less powerful than lighted matches against the first crack of tarnished gold in the eastern sky .

slope

Forest situated on eastern slopes of Slieve Croob.

state

Ruptures would cut the eastern states off from their supply of oil and contaminate ground water.

Five years after reunification, twice as many women as men were unemployed in the five eastern states .

Many eastern states are near the end of their landfill capacity.

Each of these reservoirs would be as long as smaller eastern states .

town

On Jan 25 one man was killed in the eastern town of Talvan during nationwide anti-war protests.

Fighting at this stage centred around Mostar and the eastern towns of Visegrad and Foca.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Eastern philosophies

There was heavy snow in eastern Minnesota yesterday.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As far as temperatures are concerned the brighter eastern areas will do better.

At this stage of the itinerary I propose to suspend the journey south and visit the eastern glens.

Jobs had immediately disappeared, as inefficient eastern industries and bureaucracies were shut down.

On the other hand, people in Britain grew increasingly impressed by the success of the Soviet troops on the eastern front.

Roughly one-third of the sites in eastern Berlin are state-owned; establishing who owns the rest could take years.

The company that gets Conrail would dominate eastern railroading.

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