exit

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A door or passage for leaving a place.

   In an emergency, follow the green signs to the nearest exit.

2. 2
   verb

   To go out of or leave a place.

   The driver exited the building and got into a waiting car.

3. 3
   noun

   The act of leaving a place.

   She made a quiet exit before the meeting ended.

4. 4
   verb

   To close or stop running a computer program.

   Save your work before you exit the application.

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.

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