east
24 synonyms found
- Asia
- cardinal compass point
- cardinal points
- compass card
- compass rose
- degrees
- direction
- eastabout
- easterly
- eastern
- eastward
- eastwardly
- eastwards
- geographical area
- half points
- location
- northward
- occident
- oriental
- quarter points
- rhumb
- southward
- sunset
- westward
Definition
(n) :
one of the four principal compass points, specifically 90?, conventionally directed to the right on maps; the direction of the rising sun at an equinox
"1895: Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure — In a few hours the birds come to it from all points of the compass – east, west, north, and south..."