Definition of "easterner" [easterner]

• A native or inhabitant of the east, especially the eastern United States. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "To an easterner, the weather out here has an uncanny consistency, which only adds to the endless sameness."
• "Inhofe as much more of a terrorist threat to our environment and world peace than any “middle easterner” on an airplane."
• "It also meant some public goods: decent roads, plentiful facilities for outdoor recreation, and the libraries and schools that helped produce the Los Angeles “common man” who, as that jaundiced easterner James M. Cain described him in 1933, “addresses you in easy grammar, completes his sentences, shows familiarity with good manners, and in addition gives you a pleasant smile.”"