Definition of "easterners" [easterners]

• Plural form of easterner. (noun)

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• "When speaking about social differences between the east and west of the city of Berlin, arts adminsistrator Alfons Hug bluntly called the easterners "a bit backward.""
• "But I was sometimes moved to recall, thinking on those difficult years, the well-known conflicts within the respective German foreign offices of the Kaiser's time as well as during the later Weimar period between the so-called "easterners" and "westerners"; and to reflect that after the deaths of Charles Bohlen and Llewellyn Thompson, I was probably the last of the "easterners" that the State Department of those years ever tolerated."
• "Failure of "easterners" to realize that the Western Front was"