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What does eastern mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of, facing, situated in, or related to the east.
  2. (of a wind) Blowing from the east; easterly.
  3. (loosely) Oriental.
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As along the eastern United States, continental shelves commonly acquire a prism of sediments as the continental margin downflexes.
The areas that constituted the Danelaw lie in northern and eastern England.
It was equal to half a quarter, i.e. is identical with the coomb of the eastern counties.
Huge populations of the sea duck, common scoter, spend winters feeding in shallow waters off eastern Ireland, Lancashire and North Wales.
There were popular courts or comhdhails, indicated by dozens of place names in eastern Scotland.
Ida had kept him awake while he drowsed his way up the old King's Trace in eastern Missouri, feverish and weak.

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