eastland

plural eastlands

1. The eastern part of a geographic area; a land lying to the east.

   The hawk called Grenzar, who searches out the eastlands, not far above rested on the branch of the oak tree, […]

   2020, H. G. Potter, The Fall of Nystol and Other Tales, page 397

plural Eastlands

1. countableuncountableA surname.

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   But Ms. Smyrl is among what appears to be a quiet majority of parents and alumnae who support the camp’s reopening, and see the Eastlands as equal victims of an unforeseeable natural disaster for which no one could have prepared. […] She, too, was a Mystic girl, and she wanted to thank Ms. Smyrl for saying something positive about the camp, and the Eastland family.

   2026 February 24, Ruth Graham, “How the Flood Fractured the Tightknit Camp Mystic Community”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 Feb 2026

2. countableuncountableA city, the county seat of Eastland County, Texas, United States.
3. countablehistoricaluncountableThe land(s) in the east.

   The charter, however, merely prohibited Englishmen to trade in the Eastland unless they were members of the Eastland company; it did not prohibit them to import Eastland goods from elsewhere.

   2015, R. W. K. Hinton, The Eastland Trade and the Common Weal in the Seventeenth Century