EAST COAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does East Coast mean? 

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

1. the eastern seaboard of the United States (especially the strip between Boston and Washington D.C.)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EAST COAST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The eastern seaboard of the United States (especially the strip between Boston and Washington D.C.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Holonyms ("East Coast" is a part of...):

East; eastern United States (the region of the United States lying to the north of the Ohio River and to the east of the Mississippi River)

 Context examples 

The timing of this event on December 15 falls on a Sunday in Los Angeles, but it will fall on Monday on the US East Coast, Europe, Australia, and Asia.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Three days after my arrival, walking out of curiosity to the north-east coast of the island, I observed, about half a league off in the sea, somewhat that looked like a boat overturned.

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

In 2018, more than 20 million tons of it floated in surface waters and became a problem to shorelines lining the tropical Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and east coast of Florida.

(Satellites Find Biggest Seaweed Bloom in the World, NASA)

An archipelago in the Persian Gulf, on the east coast of Saudi Arabia.

(Bahrain, NCI Thesaurus)

I took my way straight for the east coast of the island, for I was determined to go down the sea side of the spit to avoid all chance of observation from the anchorage.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

During the eclipse on August 21, the moon will pass between the Earth and the sun, completely blocking the face of the sun and darkening skies all the way from Oregon on the West Coast to South Carolina on the East Coast.

(Perseid Meteor Shower Provides Opening Act for Solar Eclipse, VOA News)

The intense prehistoric hurricanes were fueled in part by warmer sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean than have been the norm off the U.S. East Coast over the last few hundred years.

(Monster hurricanes struck U.S. Northeast during prehistoric periods of ocean warming, NSF)

Having thus fixed fifty hooks to as many cables, I went back to the north-east coast, and putting off my coat, shoes, and stockings, walked into the sea, in my leathern jerkin, about half an hour before high water.

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

I walked towards the north-east coast, over against Blefuscu, where, lying down behind a hillock, I took out my small perspective glass, and viewed the enemy’s fleet at anchor, consisting of about fifty men of war, and a great number of transports: I then came back to my house, and gave orders (for which I had a warrant) for a great quantity of the strongest cable and bars of iron. The cable was about as thick as packthread and the bars of the length and size of a knitting-needle.

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