article + EAST | NORTH | SOUTH | WEST – English Grammar Profiler
- A2 the direction that you face
- A2 the part of an area
- The East (with a capital letter) B2 the countries of Asia
In iWeb corpus, ‘east’ is tagged mostly as the noun of direction. It is also often in names. However the part of speech really is often as an adjective or an adverb.
1 EAST (ND1) 1401537 (direction)
2 EAST (NP1) 113313 (name)
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1 THE NORTH 529075 2 THE SOUTH 479212 3 THE WEST 458616
4 THE EAST 337507
At dawn, look to the east.
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5 IN NORTH 260602
6 MIDDLE EAST 181520
Both saw combat in the Middle East.
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7 IN SOUTH 141799 8 , NORTH 135073 9 OF NORTH 134044 10 AND SOUTH 108543 11 , SOUTH 94739 12 OF SOUTH 76653 13 AND NORTH 71232 14 IN WEST 69452 15 AND WEST 66247 16 THE NORTHEAST 60471 17 THE NORTHWEST 54864 18 IN EAST 54721 19 , WEST 52952 20 THE SOUTHWEST 51171 21 NORTH 50796 22 THE SOUTHEAST 44881 23 SOUTH EAST 44635 24 OF WEST 42268 25 , EAST 41039 26 TO NORTH 39718 27 SOUTH WEST 37167 28 TO SOUTH 37164 29 AND EAST 36719 30 SOUTH 36524 31 NORTH WEST 36391 32 NORTH EAST 35400 33 FROM NORTH 35332 34 PACIFIC NORTHWEST 32639 35 WEST 30571 36 OF EAST 29474 37 JUST NORTH 29058 38 MILES NORTH 26616 39 JUST SOUTH 25795 40 FROM SOUTH 24770 41 MILES SOUTH 24266 42 IN SOUTHEAST 23834 43 FAR EAST 22980 44 TO WEST 21782 45 . NORTH 20932 46 AT NORTH 20855 47 EAST 19771 48 BIG EAST 19432 49 ACROSS NORTH 19413 50 KANYE WEST 19280 51 FAR NORTH 18416 52 WILD WEST 17774 53 A NORTH 17366 54 ( NORTH 17242 55 FROM WEST 16629 56 ‘S NORTH 16374 57 TO EAST 15705 58 MILES WEST 15694 59 . SOUTH 15520 60 MILES EAST 15114 61 UP NORTH 15034 62 FROM EAST 15014 63 FOR NORTH 14239 64 AT SOUTH 13939 65 AT WEST 13861 66 ‘S SOUTH 13600 67 ( SOUTH 13401 68 ‘S WEST 13260 69 . WEST 12919 70 NORTH 12904 71 IN SOUTHWEST 12657 72 IN NORTHEAST 12640 73 A SOUTH 12384 74 JUST WEST 12309 75 ( WEST 11987 76 IN NORTHWEST 11770 77 JUST EAST 11493 78 OUT WEST 11007 79 AT EAST 10987 80 ‘S EAST 10789 81 AND SOUTHEAST 10769 82 FURTHER SOUTH 10595 83 A WEST 10366 84 OR SOUTH 10333 85 HEAD NORTH 10304 86 FURTHER NORTH 10237 87 SOUTH 10021 88 OF SOUTHEAST 9774 89 THROUGHOUT NORTH 9654 90 ( EAST 9622 91 HEAD SOUTH 9603 92 DOWN SOUTH 9532 93 THE NORTH-EAST 9305 94 FAR SOUTH 8975 95 ON NORTH 8908 96 THE SE 8905 97 FOR SOUTH 8829 98 ON SOUTH 8756 99 NEAR EAST 8715
100 ON WEST 8573