adv
Meaning 1
In the eastern part of a country or region.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- my relatives back east
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: out west
Phrase guide
back east
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adv
Meaning 2
In the eastern part of a country or region.
In the eastern part of the United States: in the East.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, often
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: out west
History
Etymology
In American English, the idiomatic establishment of back east and out west, rather than out east and back west, implicitly reflects the history of European settlement of the interior of North America in the 18th and 19th centuries, which involved a prevailing east-to-west gradient.