how to pronounce east

/iːst/

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the above transcription of east is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.

east is pronounced in one syllable

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video examples of east pronunciation

An example use of east in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… so I've ranked East Anglia as my highest …”

meaning of east

East is the direction that is on the left side of the map.

east frequency in english - A1 level of CEFR

the word east occurs in english on average 176.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics east can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that east can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;