DUE EAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does due east mean? 

• DUE EAST (noun)
  The noun DUE EAST has 1 sense:

1. the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees

  Familiarity information: DUE EAST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DUE EAST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

due east; E; east; eastward

Hypernyms ("due east" is a kind of...):

cardinal compass point (one of the four main compass points)

 Context examples 

I tried and found by experiment that the tide kept sweeping us westward until I had laid her head due east, or just about right angles to the way we ought to go.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I discovered nothing all that day; but upon the next, about three in the afternoon, when I had by my computation made twenty-four leagues from Blefuscu, I descried a sail steering to the south-east; my course was due east. I hailed her, but could get no answer; yet I found I gained upon her, for the wind slackened.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It was on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)