Definition of East-central

1. Adjective. Of a region of the United States generally including Kentucky, West Virginia.

Similar to: Eastern

Lexicographical Neighbors of East-central

easers
eases
easie
easier
easier said than done
easies
easiest
easily
easiness
easinesses
easing
easle
easles
east-central (current term)
east-northeast
east-southeast
east African cedar
east by north
east by northeast
east by south
east northeast
east side
east southeast
east wind
eastbound
easted
easter
easter proteinase

Literary usage of East-central

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1887)
"... Hills, East Central Africa. Map, p. 212. Is May last (1886), being retained at Blantyre, waiting for the favourable season to start for the Kamuli Hills ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1891)
"A NEW day is dawning upon the Nyassa region of East Central Africa. It was in 1859 that Livingstone and Kirk first travelled in the ..."

3. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1904)
"Mr. R. Webb then exhibited and described a number of objects forming the kit of a Bondé medicine-man, from East Central Africa, for which he received a ..."

4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1882)
"... East Central Africa. By JT LAST. Map, p. 192. I HAVE just returned from a little journey into Xguru, and send you a short account of it, thinking you ..."

5. Africa by Augustus Henry Keane (1907)
"... in East and East Central Sudan—Physical Features : General Survey—West Sudan Uplands— West Sudan Seaboard : Guinea and Senegambian Coastlands—Rivers of ..."

6. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1898)
"'Notes on the Geology of East Central Africa' ('Nature,' 1881). ... 'East Central Africa and its Commercial Outlook ' (' Scottish Geogr. ..."

7. China: Progress and Reform Challenges (2003)
"Cumulative FDI inflows to East, Central and West China as of 2001 Source: MOFCOM FDI Statistics. Table 16. FDI inflows to East, Central and West China in ..."

8. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Being the Sixth Volume of the by Waldo Selden Pratt, Charles Newell Boyd (1920)
"But from thence on settlers began to cross'the hills in force into the East Central Division — the section west of the Appalachians and east of the ..."

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