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easterner

easterner noun: a native or inhabitant of the east of a region (or of the world as a whole), such as one of the eastern United States.

Noun (1)

easterner (plural easterners)

  1. A native or inhabitant of the east of a region (or of the world as a whole), such as one of the eastern United States.

Noun (2) capitalized: Easterner

Easterner (plural Easterners)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of easterner.
    • For two years the Easterner had been searching for his lost brother, at trading posts and Army forts all along the frontier.1950, Dorothy M. Johnson, War Shirt; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 107

Forms of easterner

pluraleasterners
pluralEasterners

Origin of easterner

From eastern + -er.

Phrases with easterner

Questions about easterner

What does easterner mean?
Easterner means a native or inhabitant of the east of a region (or of the world as a whole), such as one of the eastern United States.
What part of speech is easterner?
Easterner is a noun.
What is the plural of easterner?
The plural of easterner is easterners.

Words near easterner in the dictionary

  1. eastern yellow robin
  2. eastern yellow robins
  3. eastern yellow wagtail
  4. eastern yellow wagtails
  5. Eastern-rigged
  6. easterner
  7. easterners
  8. easternisation
  9. easternise
  10. easternised
  11. easternises

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Adapted from Wiktionary: easterner (page history and authors); Easterner (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.

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