eastern-2.html - n.
1 (also Easter Day or Sunday) the festival (held on a variable Sunday in March or April) commemorating Christ's resurrection.
2 the season in which this occurs, esp. the weekend from Good Friday to Easter Monday.

Easter egg an artificial usu. chocolate egg given at Easter, esp. to children. Easter week the week beginning on Easter Sunday. [OE eastre app. f. Eostre, a goddess associated with spring, f. Gmc]

eastern-2.html - adj., adv., & n. --adj.

& adv.
1 in an eastern position or direction.
2 (of a wind) blowing from the east.

--n.

(pl. -ies) a wind blowing from the east.

eastern-2.html - adj.
1 of or in the east; inhabiting the east.
2 lying or directed towards the east.
3 (Eastern) of or in the Far, Middle, or Near East.

Eastern Church the Orthodox Church. Eastern hemisphere the half of the earth containing Europe, Asia, and Africa. Eastern Time standard time used in eastern Canada and the US or in eastern Australia.

easternmost adj. [OE easterne (as EAST, -ERN)]

eastern-2.html - n.
a native or inhabitant of the east.

eastern-2.html - n.
the period including Easter.

eastern-2.html - n.
1 (also Easter Day or Sunday) the festival (held on a variable Sunday in March or April) commemorating Christ's resurrection.
2 the season in which this occurs, esp. the weekend from Good Friday to Easter Monday.

Easter egg an artificial usu. chocolate egg given at Easter, esp. to children. Easter week the week beginning on Easter Sunday. [OE eastre app. f. Eostre, a goddess associated with spring, f. Gmc]