"back east" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "In American English, the idiomatic establishment of back east and out west, rather than out east and back west, implicitly reflects the history of European settlement of the interior of North America in the 18th and 19th centuries, which involved a prevailing east-to-west gradient.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "back east (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "out west"
        }
      ],
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        }
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "up north"
        },
        {
          "word": "down south"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              13,
              22
            ]
          ],
          "tags": [
            "collocation"
          ],
          "text": "my relatives back east",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In the eastern part of a country or region."
      ],
      "id": "en-back_east-en-adv-CStFG-Gk",
      "links": [
        [
          "eastern",
          "eastern"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "out west"
        }
      ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "1 99",
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 100",
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 100",
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        }
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "up north"
        },
        {
          "word": "down south"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In the eastern part of a country or region.",
        "In the eastern part of the United States: in the East."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "eastern",
          "eastern"
        ],
        [
          "United States",
          "United States"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "In the eastern part of a country or region.",
        "(often) In the eastern part of the United States: in the East."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "4 96",
          "word": "back home"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 96",
          "word": "old country"
        }
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:in Q1189650"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable",
        "often"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "back east"
}

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    "English adverbs",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English uncomparable adverbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "In American English, the idiomatic establishment of back east and out west, rather than out east and back west, implicitly reflects the history of European settlement of the interior of North America in the 18th and 19th centuries, which involved a prevailing east-to-west gradient.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "back east (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "back home"
    },
    {
      "word": "old country"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "out west"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with collocations"
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "up north"
        },
        {
          "word": "down south"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
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            [
              13,
              22
            ]
          ],
          "tags": [
            "collocation"
          ],
          "text": "my relatives back east",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In the eastern part of a country or region."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "eastern",
          "eastern"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "out west"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with collocations"
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "up north"
        },
        {
          "word": "down south"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In the eastern part of a country or region.",
        "In the eastern part of the United States: in the East."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "eastern",
          "eastern"
        ],
        [
          "United States",
          "United States"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "In the eastern part of a country or region.",
        "(often) In the eastern part of the United States: in the East."
      ],
      "senseid": [
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      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable",
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    }
  ],
  "word": "back east"
}