different between easter vs eastern

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?i?.st?/

Adjective

easter (comparative more easter, superlative most easter)

1. (now regional) Eastern. [from 8th c.]
   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 57:

     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.

Derived terms

• easterly
• Easter Ross

Related terms

• wester

References

• “easter” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Anagrams

• Teresa, aretes, arsete, arêtes, asteer, earset, eaters, ratees, reseat, saeter, seater, staree, teares, teaser

English

Etymology

From Middle English esturne, esterne, from Old English ?asterne (“eastern”), from Proto-Germanic *austr?nijaz (“eastern”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ews-ro- (“eastern”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ews- (“dawn, east”). Cognate with Old Saxon and Old High German ?str?ni (“eastern”), Old Norse austrœnn (“eastern”). More at east.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?i?st?n/
• Rhymes: -i?st?(r)n

Adjective

eastern (comparative more eastern, superlative most eastern)

1. Of, facing, situated in, or related to the east.
   • 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 25,

     While De Anza was exploring the Bay of San Francisco, seeking a site for the presidio, the American colonists on the eastern seaboard, three thousand miles away, were celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
2. (of a wind) Blowing from the east; easterly.
3. (loosely) Oriental.

Derived terms

• easternmost
• Eastern Norway

Translations

See also

• northern
• southern
• western
• northeastern
• southeastern
• southwestern
• northwestern

Anagrams

• Earnest, Saetern, Tareens, earnest, estrane, nearest, renates, sterane