EASTERLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does easterly mean? 

• EASTERLY (noun)
  The noun EASTERLY has 1 sense:

1. a wind from the east

  Familiarity information: EASTERLY used as a noun is very rare.

• EASTERLY (adjective)
  The adjective EASTERLY has 2 senses:

1. lying in or toward the east

2. from the east; used especially of winds

  Familiarity information: EASTERLY used as an adjective is rare.

• EASTERLY (adverb)
  The adverb EASTERLY has 1 sense:

1. from the east

  Familiarity information: EASTERLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EASTERLY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wind from the east

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

east wind; easter; easterly

Hypernyms ("easterly" is a kind of...):

air current; current of air; wind (air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "easterly"):

levanter (an easterly wind in the western Mediterranean area)

• EASTERLY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lying in or toward the east

Synonyms:

easterly; eastern

Context example:

eastern cities

Similar:

east (situated in or facing or moving toward the east)

Sense 2

Meaning:

From the east; used especially of winds

Synonyms:

easterly; eastern

Context example:

the winds are easterly

Similar:

east (situated in or facing or moving toward the east)

Derivation:

easter (a wind from the east)

• EASTERLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

From the east

Context example:

the winds blew easterly all night

Antonym:

westerly (from the west)

Pertainym:

east (situated in or facing or moving toward the east)

 Context examples 

They went to the sands, to watch the flowing of the tide, which a fine south-easterly breeze was bringing in with all the grandeur which so flat a shore admitted.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

This was dead in our teeth, but I took in the sea-anchor and set sail, hauling a course on the wind which took us in a south-south-easterly direction.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Exactly, for Amy keeps me pointing due west most of the time, with only an occasional whiffle round to the south, and I haven't had an easterly spell since I was married.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I wired to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I remembered that the most easterly of the rivers which drain into Captain Kidd's anchorage ran from the two-peaked hill upon my left, and I bent my course in that direction that I might pass the stream while it was small.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)