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EASTERN TIME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Eastern Time mean?
• EASTERN TIME (noun)
The noun EASTERN TIME has 1 sense:
1. standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern United States
Familiarity information: EASTERN TIME used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
Eastern Standard Time; Eastern Time; EST
Hypernyms ("Eastern Time" is a kind of...):
civil time; local time; standard time (the official time in a local region (adjusted for location around the Earth); established by law or custom)
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