East

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The direction of the earth's rotation, specifically 90°.

   “Portsmouth is to the east of Southampton.”

2. isim The eastern region or area; the inhabitants thereof.

   “We, in the west, agreed amongst ourselves that a penitentiary should be erected with our half of the money arising as above stated; and the east agreed to improve the country in their vicinity with the other half.”

3. isim In a church: the direction of the altar and chancel; the direction faced by the priest when celebrating ad orientem.

   “However, in Mies' chapel, liturgical east is magnetic west.”

4. sıfat Situated or lying in or towards the east; eastward.
5. sıfat Blowing (as wind) from the east.
6. sıfat Of or pertaining to the east; eastern.
7. sıfat From the East; oriental.
8. sıfat Designating, or situated in, the liturgical east.

   “the east front of a cathedral”

9. zarf Towards the east; eastwards.
10. özel isim Any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie.

    “[…] I sat down and wrote, / In such a hand as when a field of corn / Bows all its ears before the roaring East; […]”

11. özel isim The Eastern world; the regions, primarily situated in the Eastern Hemisphere, whose culture is derived from Arabia, India, Persia or China.

    “I remember a hearty welcome; a prodigious supper, which would have fed a whole village in the East; […]”

12. özel isim The Eastern Bloc; the eastern countries of Europe.
13. özel isim the Soviet Union and its socialist allies during the Cold War.
14. özel isim The Eastern Roman Empire.
15. özel isim That part of the Christian Church whose traditions and practices originated in the former territories of the Eastern Roman Empire, including the Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Catholic Churches, Oriental Orthodox Church, and Church of the East.

    “The words may suggest that the Roman rite is in some way superior to those of the East: a fallacy now equally reprobated by Rome.”

16. özel isim The eastern states of the United States.
17. özel isim A civil parish of Kings County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
18. özel isim A personification of the wind from the east.

    “Near-synonyms: easter, levanter”

19. özel isim A surname.