East End
East End proper noun: used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see east, end.
Proper noun
East End or the East End
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see east, end.
- The east end of London, generally regarded to be east of the medieval walled City of London and north of the River Thames.
- But O Cook, O Thomas Cook & Son,[…]with ease and celerity, could you send me to Darkest Africa or Innermost Thibet, but to the East End of London, barely a stone’s throw distant from Ludgate Circus, you know not the way!1903 October, Jack London, chapter I, in The People of the Abyss, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
- A hamlet in Weedon parish, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP8118).
- A region of Montreal island, Quebec, Canada.
- The eastern tip of Long Island, New York.
- A neighbourhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Words formed from East End
Questions about East End
- What does East End mean?
- East End means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see east, end.
- What part of speech is East End?
- East End is a proper noun.
Words near East End in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: East End (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-us-East End.ogg.
Cite this entry: “East End.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/east_end. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
