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East End

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(the) East End

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see east,‎ end.
  2. (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!
  3. A hamlet in Weedon parish, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP8118).
  4. A region of Montreal island, Quebec, Canada
  5. The eastern tip of Long Island, New York.
    Holonyms: Long Island, Suffolk County
    Meronyms: Hamptons, South Fork, North Fork
  6. A neighbourhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

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