East

East

East is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. East is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points. It is the opposite of west and is perpendicular to north and south.

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Famous quotes containing the word east:

    “An inexperienced heraldist resembles a medieval traveler who brings back from the East the faunal fantasies influenced by the domestic bestiary he possessed all along rather than by the results of direct zoological exploration.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “Sublime tobacco! which from east to west
    Cheers the tar’s labour or the Turkman’s rest.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “From the east to western Inde,
    No jewel is like Rosalind.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)