Translation
east; the Orient
Examples
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The sun rises in the east.
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They travelled east for many months.
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A wind came from the east.
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In the east of the country there are great forests.
orientaj .
He told us about the eastern cities.
The four points are , , and , and they behave as ordinary nouns, so they take and can be inflected. You are when you are located there and you go when you travel that way. The adjective orienta gives eastern, orienten with the adverbial accusative gives eastwards, and is the Near East. Capitalise when you mean the cultural region rather than the compass bearing, the same distinction English draws between east and the East.
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