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exit

Pronunciation: /ˈɛksɪt/

The English word “exit” has 13 meanings listed here.

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. 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.
  4. 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).
  5. 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.
  8. Used as a stage direction for an actor: to leave the scene or stage.

Etymology

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…

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