easter
adjetivosubstantivoverbocorrente nos diálogos
- Reino Unido//ˈiː.stə//
- Estados Unidos//ˈi.stəɹ//
Eastern.
adjetivo
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Eastern.
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.
This is properly two, if not three towns — there being an Easter Anstruther and a Wester Anstruther, both burghs, besides a large fishing village […]
There had been a Little and a Meikle, and an Easter and a Wester Coull two centuries ago; and there had been a castle on the property […]
It is styled, as we have seen, Wester Rires, which implies an Easter Rires; and this last portion of it probably lay to the north-east, and included […]
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Também uma forma de eastcomparative form of east: more east
Etimologia
From Old English eastera, eastra. Compare norther, souther, wester.
substantivo
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An easterly wind (a wind blowing from the east); especially, a strong one; a storm of such winds.
A northeaster in one place may be an easter, a norther, or a souther in some other locality.
verbo
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To move toward the east.
Off Tilbury the Alcyone's topsail-yard was carried away just forward of the slings; she set a jib-headed one; at Thames Haven the wind eastered ...
At 5 the wind eastered and came E. by N., that we went 2 knots […] .
Formas
- plural
- easters
- comparativo
- more easter
- superlativo
- most easter
- pretérito
- eastered
- particípio passado
- eastered
- gerúndio
- eastering
- 3.ª pessoa do singular
- easters