0 a person who comes from a country in Asia:
He said that Americans need to understand the East, and Easterners need to understand the West.
1 a person from the eastern part of a country, or (in the US) a person from the part of the country east of the Mississippi River
The ' easterner ' versus ' westerner ' debates, the ' frocks ' versus the ' brass hats ', the polarities drawn more clearly after the war than they ever were during it, provided him with protection.
The struggle to direct and generate public action persisted well into 1980, with various networks of easterners pressuring the regime for the amelioration of political and social grievances.
We were too fast in dividing that country into pro-westerners and pro-easterners.
I observed that a characteristic of north-easterners, or northerners, was that they were not moaning minnies.
Most people looking for housing in the south-east are south-easterners.
Millions of those easterners were refugees.
Members dreamed of a yeoman farmer empire and thought that western farmers were exploited by wealthy easterners, particularly merchants and land speculators.
The easterners, at least, must have been compensated by club members if not by the club.
