easter

Old English eastera, eastra. Compare norther, souther, wester.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈiː.stə/

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easter (comparative more easter, superlative most easter)

1. (now regional) Eastern. [from 8th c.]
   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 57:

     In the mean while, as our apartment was a corner one, and looked both east and north, I ran to the easter casement to look after Drummond.

• easterly

• Teresa, aretes, arsete, arêtes, asteer, earset, eaters, ratees, reseat, saeter, seater, staree, teares, teaser