English Explanatory Dictionary

exit

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
  2. The action of an actor leaving a scene or the stage.
  3. A way out.
  4. An opening or passage through which one can go from inside a place (such as a building, a room, or a vehicle) to the outside; an egress.
  5. A minor road (such as a ramp or slip road) which is used to leave a major road (such as an expressway, highway, or motorway).
  6. The act of departing from life; death.
verb
  1. To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.
  2. To leave a scene or depart from a stage.
  3. To depart from life; to die.
  4. To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.)
  5. To depart from or leave (a place or situation).
  6. To alight or disembark from a vehicle.
  7. To give up the lead.
verb
  1. Used as a stage direction for an actor: to leave the scene or stage.
noun
  1. Acronym of ex utero intrapartum treatment, a specialized surgical procedure used to deliver babies who have airway compression.

Pronunciation

/ˈɛksɪt/ /ˈɛɡzɪt/ En-uk-exit.ogg /ˈeɪɡzɪt/ /ˈɛɡzət/ /ˈɛksət/ En-us-exit.ogg /ɛɡzɪʈ/

Word forms

exit exits exiting exited

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti Proto-Italic *ejō Proto-Italic *eō Latin eō Latin exeō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin exitusder. Middle English exit English exit From Middle English exit, from Latin exitus (“departure, going out; way by which one may go out, egress; (figuratively) conclusion, termination; (figuratively) death; income, revenue”), from exeō (“to depart, exit; to avoid, evade; (figuratively) to escape; of time: to expire, run out”) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs). Exeō is derived from ex- (prefix meaning ‘out, away’) + eō (“to go”) (ultimately from ). The English word is cognate with Italian esito, Portuguese êxito, Spanish éxito. Doublet of ejido and exitus. The verb is derived from the noun.

Synonyms

egress outgoing outgang outway death tomb celestial transfer decease decomposition defunction dematerialization demise dirt nap doom exit expiration fatality liquidation mortality passing quietus repose sleep of the just sunset the big sleep crash downfall fall (the) bane (the) end assume room temperature auger in be called home be gathered to one's fathers be like the the One be no more be with Jesus be with the Lord bite the big one bite the biscuit bite the dust buy the farm buy it cark it cash in cash in one's chips check out close one's eyes for the last time code conk out croak cross over cross rainbow bridge cross the Great Divide cross the Styx darken decompose dematerialize depart disincarnate

Antonyms

entrance entry ingoing ingress entranceway entryway ingang portal arrive come enter

Related words

exits issue exeunt

Derived words

Blaxit Brexit Calexit Capexit Catalexit Czexit developer exit Dexit emergency exit exit bag exit ban exit clause exit code exit fee exit hole exit interview exitless exit-like exit node exit policy exit poll exit program exit ramp exit scam exit sign exit strategy exit ticket exit time exit velocity exit visa exit wound fire exit first exit time Fixit French exit Frexit Grexit Huxit Irish exit Italexit Lexit make one's exit Megxit Nexit Orkxit Polexit Quexit rear exit Roexit Scexit Swexit Tasexit Texit Waxit Wexit exiter exiting reexit exit stage left

Translations

Albanian: ikje Albanian: dalje Arabic: خُرُوج Arabic: مَخْرَج Arabic: خروج Arabic: مخرج Arabic: خرجة Armenian: ելք Bulgarian: напу́скане Bulgarian: и́зход Catalan: sortida Catalan: eixida Chinese Mandarin: 離開 /离开 Chinese Mandarin: 退場 /退场 Chinese Mandarin: 出口 Czech: odchod Czech: odjezd Czech: východ Czech: odbočka Czech: výjezd Danish: motorvej Danish: sortie Danish: udgang Danish: frakørsel Danish: udvej Danish: afkørsel Estonian: väljumine Estonian: lahkumine Estonian: väljapääs Farefare: yɛsga Finnish: lähtö Finnish: ulospääsy Finnish: uloskäynti French: sortie French: issue Friulian: jessude German: Abtritt German: Abwanderung German: Austritt German: Ausstieg German: Ausweg German: Ausfahrt German: Ausgang Gothic: 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌿𐌽𐍃 Greek: έξοδος Ancient Greek: ἔξοδος Hebrew: יְצִיאָה Hindi: प्रस्थान Hindi: निकासी Hindi: निर्गम Hungarian: távozás Hungarian: kijárat Italian: uscita Kazakh: шығу Kazakh: шығыс Kyrgyz: чыгуу Kyrgyz: чыгыш Kyrgyz: чыкма Latin: abitus Latin: exitus Latin: ēgressus Lithuanian: išėjimas Macedonian: излегување Macedonian: излез Moore: yiibu Occitan: sortida Occitan: salida Occitan: exit Occitan: eissida Old Tupi: sema Iranian Persian: خُروج Iranian Persian: خُروجی Polish: wyjście Polish: wyjazd Portuguese: saída Russian: вы́ход Russian: вы́езд Sanskrit: बहिर्गमन Spanish: salida Spanish: partida Spanish: exida Swedish: avsked Swedish: utgång Swedish: sorti Tocharian B: lalñe Turkish: çekilme Turkish: çıkış Turkish: çıkma Turkish: terk Turkish: terk etme Turkish: çıkış yolu Valencian Sign Language: eixida Waray-Waray: gikan Abkhaz: ацара Abkhaz: алҵра Albanian: dal Albanian: ik Arabic: خَرَجَ Arabic: خرج Armenian: ելնել Belarusian: выхо́дзіць Belarusian: вы́йсці Bulgarian: изли́зам Bulgarian: напускам Catalan: sortir Catalan: eixir Cherokee: ᎦᏄᎪᎦ Chinese Mandarin: 出門 /出门 Chinese Mandarin: 出去 Chinese Mandarin: 離開 /离开 Chinese Mandarin: 走 Danish: gå Danish: forlade Dutch: uitgaan Dutch: vertrekken Esperanto: eliri Esperanto: elveni Estonian: lahkuma Estonian: väljuma Finnish: lähteä Finnish: mennä ulos Finnish: poistua French: sortir Georgian: გასვლა Georgian: დატოვება German: abgehen German: ausgehen German: aussteigen German: hinausgehen German: verschwinden Greek: βγαίνω Greek: φεύγω Ancient Greek: ἐξέρχομαι Ancient Greek: ἐκβαίνω Hebrew: יצא
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