easterner
noun
easterner
American
[ee-ster-ner]
/ ˈi stər nər /
noun
(often initial capital letter)
Easterner
British
/ ˈiːstənə /
noun
Etymology
Origin of easterner
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Because she was an easterner and a scientist, he expected her to be an ambassador for the East — and for coal.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2021
Ms. Merkel, a pastor’s daughter and trained scientist who had grown up in Communist East Germany, was not only the first woman but the first easterner to lead her reunified country.
From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2018
Which is to say that when an easterner performs music written by a westerner, it can have its own special meaning.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 5, 2016
But it's too late for easterner Apoli Juan, who arrives just in time to see his family home disappear in an inferno.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was a middle-aged bald guy more than thirty years older than he, a lifelong easterner.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
A woman hopes to tie up Jed Clampett, a mountain-man Easterner, and his newly acquired wealth in the bonds of matrimony.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2019
The young Easterner spurred up on the right of the girl’s mount.
From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2018
This Easterner never knew there were high school and college rodeo teams.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2015
It includes people who reported ‘White’ or wrote in entries such as Irish, German, Italian, Lebanese, Near Easterner, Arab, or Polish.”
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2013
Seferino Pacheco stopped, looking vaguely askance and threateningly at the Easterner perched in the fallen cottonwood.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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