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The east

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east /i:st/ n [U, sing] ( abbr E ) ၁။ (usu the east ) ေနထြက္ရာ အရပ္။ အေရွ႕အရပ္။ (ကြန္ပါအိမ္ေျမႇာင္ရိွ E အမွတ္အသား)။ The wind is blowing from the east. ❍ He lives to the east of (ie further east than) Boston. Compare NORTH, SOUTH, WEST ၂။ the East အာရွႏိုင္ငံမ်ား။ (အထူးသျဖင့္ တ႐ုတ္ႏွင့္ ဂ်ပန္)။ Yoga originated in the East. See also THE MIDDLE EAST, THE NEAR EAST, THE FAR EAST ၃။ the East ( US ) အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စု အေရွ႕ ပိုင္း။ I was born in the East, but now live in Los Angeles. adj ၁။ အေရွ႕ဘက္။ East Africa ❍ He lives on the east coast. ၂။ အေရွ႕ဘက္မွ တိုက္ေသာ။ an east wind. အေရွ႕ေလ။ See also EASTERLY ၂ adv အေရွ႕ဘက္သို႔ေရွး႐ႈလ်က္၊ မ်က္ႏွာမူလ်က္။ two miles east of here ❍ My window faces east. ❍ We are travelling east. ❏ the East End n ( Brit ) လန္ဒန္အေရွ႕ပိုင္း အလုပ္သမား ရပ္ကြက္။ Compare THE WEST END ❏ eastward /'i:stwǝd/ adj အေရွ႕ဘက္သို႔ ဦးတည္ေသာ။ in an eastward direction. ❏ eastwards /'i:stwǝdz/ (also eastward ) adv အေရွ႕ဘက္ သို႔ေရွး႐ႈလ်က္။ firms looking eastward for new markets ❍ travel eastwards. ❍ forwords

Examples

  1. Driving from east to west
  2. Which way is east?
  3. They live in the east of the city.
  4. Most of the region’s forests are in the east.