different between egress vs negress

English

Etymology 1

From Latin ?gressus, from ex- + gressus.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ??gr?s, IPA^(key): /?i????s/

Noun

egress (countable and uncountable, plural egresses)

1. An exit or way out.
   • Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.

2. The process of exiting or leaving.
3. (astronomy) The end of the apparent transit of a small astronomical body over the disk of a larger one.

Synonyms

• (exit): exit, way out, outgang
• (process of exiting): departure, exit, exiting, leaving

Antonyms

• (exit): entrance, ingress, way in
• (process of exiting): entering, entrance

Coordinate terms

• (permission): ingress, egress, regress

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin egressum, past participle egredi.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?-gr?s?, IPA^(key): /?????s/

Verb

egress (third-person singular simple present egresses, present participle egressing, simple past and past participle egressed)

1. (intransitive) To exit or leave; to go or come out.

Synonyms

• (exit): come out, depart, exit, go out, leave

Antonyms

• (exit): come in, enter, go in

Anagrams

• Segers, serges

English

Etymology

From French négresse, from nègre. Equivalent to Negro +? -ess.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ni????s/

Noun

negress (plural negresses)

1. (dated, literary, now offensive and an ethnic slur) A black female.

Synonyms

• (derogatory term for black woman): sheboon

Related terms

• negro
• negroid

Translations

See also

• Latina
• Muslimah

Anagrams

• Gessner, Sengers