°One of the four principal
compass points, specifically 90°, conventionally directed to the right on maps; the direction of the rising sun at an equinox.
"1895: Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure — In a few hours the birds come to it from all points of the compass – east, west, north, and south..."
adjective
°Situated or lying in or towards the east;
eastward.
verb
synonyms:
eastward, easterly, eastern, oriental
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, eastwards