Difference between Eastern and East

Eastern

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of, facing, situated in, or related to the east blowing from the east; easterly oriental

Example sentence: I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

East

Part of speech: noun

Definition: One of the four principal compass points, specifically 90, conventionally directed to the right on maps; the direction of the rising sun at an equinox.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: towards the east; eastwards

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Situated or lying in or towards the east; eastward.wind from the eastOf or pertaining to the east; eastern.From the East; oriental.

Example sentence: I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.