Definitions for Easterly

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Easterly east·er·ly

Spelling: [ee-ster-lee]

IPA: /ˈi stər li/

Easterly is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 396 anagrams from letters in Easterly (aeelrsty).

Definitions for Easterly

noun

1. a wind that blows from the east.

adverb

1. toward the east.
2. from the east.

adjective

1. moving, directed, or situated toward the east:
2. (especially of a wind) coming from the east:

Origin of Easterly

1540-50; obsolete easter eastern (see easterling) + -ly

Examples for Easterly

Each pilot made an easterly course toward Fallujah, heading back to the LZ beyond Camp Schwedler.

Anselmo determined to leave France in an easterly direction.

It can be cold in our village, even in early September, when there is an easterly storm.

So they rose into the air and disappeared in an easterly direction.

No barometer will give warning of an easterly gale, were it ever so wet.

Then I turned to the easterly tunnel, and pursued it till it branched.

Then you would have walked up the street from an easterly direction?

We'll have rain and an easterly blow by night, see if we don't.

The most easterly one is β Persei, known as Algol, the famous variable.

Afternoon weather for central London is predicted to be 12C, light rain, easterly breeze with the evening, largely overcast.