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easter en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈiː.stə/ (UK)
• (US) audio
• /ˈi.stəɹ/ (US)

Etymology

From Old English eastera, eastra. Compare norther, souther, wester.

Meanings

1. (dialectal) Eastern.
   • In the mean while, as our apartment was a corner one, and looked both east and north, I ran to the easter casement to look after Drummond. 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 57:
   • This is properly two, if not three towns — there being an Easter Anstruther and a Wester Anstruther, both burghs, besides a large fishing village […] 1828, The Picture of Scotland, page 187:
   • There had been a Little and a Meikle, and an Easter and a Wester Coull two centuries ago; and there had been a castle on the property […] 1885, Alex Johnston Warden, Angus Or Forfarshire: The Land and People, Descriptive and Historical, page 204:
   • 'The fact remains that there is an Easter Fintry and a Wester Fintry in this part of the world. Just as there is an Easter Golford and a Wester Golford, ... 2011, J.I.M. Stewart, Mungo's Dream, House of Stratus, →ISBN, page 219:
   • It is styled, as we have seen, Wester Rires, which implies an Easter Rires; and this last portion of it probably lay to the north-east, and included […] 1887, Walter Wood, The East Neuk of Fife: Its History and Antiquities, page 118:
2. (comparative, form-of) comparative form of east: more east
   form of east

Forms

Deriveds

easterly · Easter Ross

Relateds

down-easter · wester

easter en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈiː.stə/ (UK)
• (US) audio
• /ˈi.stəɹ/ (US)

Etymology

From Old English eastera, eastra. Compare norther, souther, wester.

Meanings

1. An easterly wind (a wind blowing from the east); especially, a strong one; a storm of such winds.
   • A northeaster in one place may be an easter, a norther, or a souther in some other locality. 1902, John Burroughs, Locusts and Wild Honey, page 81:

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Coordinates

norther · westwind · westerly · north wind · northwesterly · noreaster · southwester · southwesterly · northwind · wester · northwester · southeasterly · northeasterly · souther · northeaster · southeaster · northerly · west wind

Synonyms

east wind · eastwind · East · easterly

easter en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈiː.stə/ (UK)
• (US) audio
• /ˈi.stəɹ/ (US)

Etymology

From Old English eastera, eastra. Compare norther, souther, wester.

Meanings

1. To move toward the east.
   • At 5 the wind eastered and came E. by N., that we went 2 knots […] . 1940(?), Thomas Allen, The Journals of Sir Thomas Allin, 1660-1678
   • Off Tilbury the Alcyone's topsail-yard was carried away just forward of the slings; she set a jib-headed one; at Thames Haven the wind eastered ... 1871, Hunt's Yachting Magazine, page 265:

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