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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??ks?t/, /???z?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???z?t/, /??ks?t/
• Rhymes: -?ks?t
• Hyphenation: ex?it

Etymology 1

The noun is derived from Latin exitus (“departure, going out; way by which one may go out, egress; (figuratively) conclusion, termination; (figuratively) death; income, revenue”), from exe? (“to depart, exit; to avoid, evade; (figuratively) to escape; of time: to expire, run out”) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs). Exe? is derived from ex- (prefix meaning ‘out, away’) + e? (“to go”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?ey- (“to go”)). The English word is cognate with Italian esito, Portuguese êxito, Spanish éxito. Doublet of ejido.

The verb is derived from the noun.

Noun

exit (plural exits)

1. An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.

   Synonyms: egress, outgoing

   Antonyms: entrance, entry, ingoing, ingress

   1. (specifically, drama) The action of an actor leaving a scene or the stage.
2. A way out.
   1. 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.

      Synonyms: outgang, outway

      Antonyms: entrance, entranceway, entry, (archaic, rare) entryway, ingang, ingress, portal
   2. (road transport) 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).
3. (figuratively, often euphemistic) The act of departing from life; death.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:death

Derived terms

Related terms

• exits (“income, returns, revenue”) (historical)
• issue

Translations

Verb

exit (third-person singular simple present exits, present participle exiting, simple past and past participle exited)

1. (intransitive) To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.

   Antonyms: arrive, come, enter, ingress

   1. (theater) To leave a scene or depart from a stage.

      Desdemona exits stage left.

2. (intransitive, often euphemistic) To depart from life; to die.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:die

3. (transitive, intransitive, computing) To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.)
4. (transitive, originally US, also figuratively) To depart from or leave (a place or situation).

   Antonym: enter

   1. (transitive, specifically) To alight or disembark from a vehicle.
5. (bridge, intransitive) To give up the lead.
   • 2014, D. K. Acharya, Standard Methods of Contract Bridge Complete (page 173)

     West now plays a low club to the J and Q. North exits in a trump.

Derived terms

• exiter
• exiting (noun)

Related terms

• exeunt

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin exit, the third-person singular present active indicative of exe? (“to depart, exit; to avoid, evade; (figuratively) to escape; of time: to expire, run out”); see further at etymology 1 above.

Verb

exit

1. (intransitive, drama, also figuratively) Used as a stage direction for an actor: to leave the scene or stage.

   Synonym: exeat

Derived terms

• exit stage left

Related terms

• exeunt

Translations

References

Further reading

• exit (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

From exe? (“exit, go out”), from ? (“out”) + e? (“go”).

Verb

exit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of exe?

Related terms

• exeunt

Descendants

• ? English: exit (“used as a stage direction for an actor: to leave the scene or stage”)

English

Etymology

From Middle English escapen, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French escaper ( = Old French eschaper, modern French échapper), from Vulgar Latin *excapp?re, literally "get out of one's cape, leave a pursuer with just one's cape," from Latin ex- (“out”) + Late Latin cappa (“cape, cloak”). Cognate with escapade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ske?p/, /??ske?p/, /??ske?p/; (proscribed) /?k?ske?p/, /?k?ske?p/
• Rhymes: -e?p
• Hyphenation: es?cape

Verb

escape (third-person singular simple present escapes, present participle escaping, simple past and past participle escaped)

1. (intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.

2. (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.

3. (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.

4. (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
   • c. 1698-1699 (year published) Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs

     They escaped the search of the enemy.

5. (transitive, computing) To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.
   • 1998 August, Tim Berners-Lee et al., Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax (RFC 2396), page 8:

     If the data for a URI component would conflict with the reserved purpose, then the conflicting data must be escaped before forming the URI.

6. (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.

Usage notes

• In senses 2. and 3. this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Synonyms

• break loose

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

escape (plural escapes)

1. The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.

   The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel.

2. Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
3. Something that has escaped; an escapee.
4. A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
5. (computing) escape key
6. (programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).

   You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.

7. (snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
8. (manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
9. (obsolete) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.

   • I should have been more accurate, corrected all those former escapes.

10. (obsolete) A sally.
11. (architecture) An apophyge.

Translations

References

• escape in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• escape at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Escape in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Peaces, espace, peaces

Asturian

Etymology

From escapar.

Noun

escape m (plural escapes)

1. escape

French

Adjective

escape (plural escapes)

1. escape

Noun

escape f (plural escapes)

1. (architecture) escape

Related terms

• échapper
• escapade
• escaper

Galician

Etymology

From escapar.

Noun

escape m (plural escapes)

1. escape

Verb

escape

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of escapar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of escapar

Further reading

• “escape” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Italian

Etymology

From English escape.

Noun

escape m (invariable)

1. (computing) The escape key

Portuguese

Etymology

From escapar.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -api

Noun

escape m (plural escapes)

1. escape

Verb

escape

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of escapar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of escapar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of escapar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of escapar

Further reading

• “escape” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From escapar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?kape/, [es?ka.pe]

Noun

escape m (plural escapes)

1. escape
2. leak

   Synonym: fuga

3. exhaust pipe, tailpipe

   Synonym: tubo de escape

Derived terms

• a escape
• carácter de escape
• válvula de escape
• velocidad de escape

Related terms

• escapatoria
• escapada

Verb

escape

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of escapar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of escapar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of escapar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of escapar.

Further reading

• “escape” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.