back east en · ADV
Etymology
In American English, the idiomatic establishment of back east and out west, rather than out east and back west, implicitly reflects the history of European settlement of the interior of North America in the 18th and 19th centuries, which involved a prevailing east-to-west gradient.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) In the eastern part of a country or region.
my relatives back east
- (not-comparable, often) In the eastern part of a country or region. ▸ In the eastern part of the United States: in the East.
Antonyms
Coordinates
down south · up north · up north · down south