Definition of east:

part of speech: adjective

Toward the rising sun.

part of speech: noun

That part of the heavens where the sun rises; the eastern parts of the earth.

Usage examples:

• Of what is it the east in "".

• Miss Archer's office is the last room on the east side of the second- floor corridor. Pauline Lester in "Marjorie Dean High School Freshman".

• She looked to the east Charles Weathers Bump in "The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories".

• If I can't find the right things at one station, I may at another, even if I go back East for them. Payne Erskine in "The Eye of Dread".