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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
eastbound
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
northbound/southbound/eastbound/westbound
▪ All eastbound trains have been cancelled due to faulty signals.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
eastbound traffic
▪ The truck was traveling eastbound on Blossom Hill Road.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Jason Walczewski, 22, smashed into the van in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 196 on Sunday night.
▪ She was struck by an eastbound truck on Geary.
▪ The contrast with the eastbound run told you all you needed to know about the Soviet collapse.
▪ The force of the impact sent concrete dividers into the eastbound lanes, blocking traffic there, too.
▪ Thibadeau, who is wearing a small cast, said he was eastbound on Route 78 about 9: 40 a.m.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
eastbound

eastbound \eastbound\ adj.

  1. moving toward the east; as, eastbound trains.

    Syn: eastward.

  2. designated for traffic moving toward the east; -- of lanes in roads or railroads, or other traffic lanes; as, the eastbound lanes of Interstate 80 are blocked by an overturned tractor-trailer; the train will leave on eastbound platform 5.

Wiktionary
eastbound

a. move or heading towards the east. adv. toward the east.

WordNet
eastbound

adj. moving toward the east; "eastbound trains" [syn: eastward]

Usage examples of "eastbound".

Silently they came out of the night, flying westward in these eastbound lanes, came by the hundreds, by the thousands, great winged multitudes, dividing into parallel currents that flowed around the flanks of the vehicle, forming a third current that swept across the hood, up and over the windshield, following the slipstream away into the night, as hushed as birds in a dream without sound.

The smoke on the port bow hung over an eastbound freighter, and on the beam was a passenger ship, probably a ferry bound for Gothenburg, which had passed ahead of the squadron half an hour ago.

The eastbound lanes were here divided from those westbound by a grassy median strip about ten yards across, and the deuce coupe probably could have made it from one side of the highway to the other, but the condition of both arteries was the same: the four lanes were crowded with six lanes of traffic, bumper to bumper and side to side.

Once again this was eastbound, although it was on the District Line rather than the Circle Line.

Then armed men appeared from a galvanized shed, tucked under the shadow of the eastbound tunnel entrance.

Who would be taking an eastbound train to the Hamptons at the end of the Thanksgiving weekend?

You'll find everything you need in here, along with your travel orders, and I naturally looked up the times and places you'll have to transfer between here and New Ulm if you're leaving on the eastbound night flyer, as I'd say you ought to.

They accelerated to 200 and in moments they were swinging onto the East-West Expressway and roaring toward Oakbrook, well spaced among the other privileged cars in the innermost of five eastbound lanes.