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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
easternmost
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Punta Maisi is the easternmost point in Cuba.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Skyllaion, in Troizenia, is the easternmost point of the Peloponnese.
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Easternmost

Easternmost \East"ern*most`\, a. Most eastern.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
easternmost

1640s, from eastern + -most. Eastermost attested from 1610s; comparative eastermore from late 15c.

Wiktionary
easternmost

a. Farthest east

WordNet
easternmost

adj. farthest to the east [syn: eastmost]

Usage examples of "easternmost".

His finger came down hard on the seaport city at the easternmost tip of the peninsula, overlooking the narrow Kerch Strait that connected the Black Sea with the Sea of Azov to the north.

The scouts of Easlon, the easternmost of the Ten Peerdoms, regularly crossed the frontier on trails known only to them, but the Lantians would have considered these hazardous routes impassible.

Avoiding the larger camp of Zastros, they staged four almost simultaneous attacks on as many camps, while a force of swampers struck the easternmost camp and a strong contingent of mounted irregulars brought fire and sword to the rear areas.

The upper rim of the antiship nets stretched in a deep catenary across the river from the titanic windlasses, down-geared and ratcheted, atop Onetower and the northwest garrison on the downstream side, and from Sixtower to the northeast garrison at the easternmost tip of Old Town, almost out of sight around the curve of the island.

Just before reaching the highway, Hal jetted off the roof and landed on the easternmost armored personnel carrier just as the last man was climbing aboard.

I watched two women in robes run up through the ascending series of temple buildings, hanging bridges, stairways, steep ladders, and penultimate construction scaffolding to the easternmost platform where the work seemed to consist of cutting holes in the rock wall.

The dam would be built across Indian Creek at the mouth of Milagro Canyon, establishing a mile-and-a-half-long lake whose easternmost shore would extend up to within hailing distance of the Dancing Trout's maui lodge.

The Tocharian speakers were the easternmost of the Indo-European peoples, and their tongue (rather oddly) shows a closer kinship to the western Indo-European languages (Celtic, Germanic, Greek, Italic) than it does to the Indo-Iranian group.

This lay between the Waldorf Yard and the Back Yard, away off to the right of Tower C, the engine inspection pit, and the power substation: it was the easternmost platform on the upper level, and well away from the routine trains and the commuters .

At the end of the easternmost block, Kermit Jones, the banker, drove his car into the corner service station.

Demolition vehicles had cleared the wreckage of the old town, shoving most of it over the rim, and leaving only the easternmost section of town, around the old socket, as a kind of monument to the disaster—.

I don't want to even consider what could happen if it decides to head into the easternmost suburbs like Orange Park Acres and Villa Park.