East End
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- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see east, end.
- (colloquial, UK, chiefly London) The east end of London, generally regarded to be east of the medieval walled City of London and north of the River Thames.
- Coordinate term: West End
- 1903 October, Jack London, chapter I, in The People of the Abyss, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- But O Cook, O Thomas Cook & Son, […] with ease and celerity, could you send me to Darkest Africa or Innermost Thibet, but to the East End of London, barely a stone’s throw distant from Ludgate Circus, you know not the way!
- A region of Montreal island, Quebec, Canada
- The eastern tip of Long Island, New York.
- Holonyms: Long Island, Suffolk County
- Meronyms: Hamptons, South Fork, North Fork
- A neighbourhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.