eastern standard time

1. 1.

   standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern United States

   SynonymsEastern TimeEST

   Broadercivil time

Questions about eastern standard time

What does eastern standard time mean?

eastern standard time means "standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern United States".

What is another word for eastern standard time?

Close synonyms include Eastern Time, EST. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is eastern standard time a common word?

eastern standard time is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.