• (RP) IPA: /ˈɛksɪt/, /ˈɛɡzɪt/
• (America) IPA: /ˈɛɡzət/, /ˈɛksət/

From Middle English exit, from Latin exitus, from exeō + -tus.

The verb is derived from the 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

   He made his exit at the opportune time.

   1. (specifically, drama) The action of an actor leaving a scene or the stage.
      • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene vii], page 194 ↗, column 1:

        All the world's a ſtage, / And all the men and women, meerely Players; / They haue their Exits and their Entrances, / And one man in his time playes many parts, / His Acts being ſeuen ages.

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, entryway, ingang, ingress, portal

      emergency exit    fire exit

      He was looking for the exit and got lost.

      She stood at the exit of the house looking back and waving at those inside.

   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: Thesaurus:death

   the untimely exit of a respected politician

   • 1711 August 13 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “THURSDAY, August 2, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 133; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC ↗, page 199 ↗:

     However, there are no ideas strike more forcibly upon our imaginations, than those which are raised from reflections upon the exits of great and excellent men.

     The spelling has been modernized.

• exits (historical)
• issue

• French: sortie
• German: Abtritt, Abwanderung, Austritt, Ausstieg
• Italian: uscita
• Portuguese: saída
• Russian: вы́ход
• Spanish: salida, partida

• French: sortie, issue
• German: Ausweg, Ausfahrt, Ausgang
• Italian: uscita
• Portuguese: saída
• Russian: вы́ход
• Spanish: salida, exida

• French: sortie
• German: Ausgang
• Italian: uscita
• Portuguese: saída
• Russian: вы́ход
• Spanish: salida

• French: sortie
• German: Ausfahrt
• Italian: uscita
• Russian: выезд

exit (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. (theatre) To leave a scene or depart from a stage.

      Desdemona exits stage left.

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

   Synonyms: Thesaurus:die

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

   Antonyms: 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.

• exeunt

• French: sortir
• German: abgehen, ausgehen, aussteigen, hinausgehen, verschwinden
• Italian: uscire
• Portuguese: deixar, sair
• Russian: выходи́ть
• Spanish: partir, salir, exir

Borrowed from Latin exit, the third-person singular present active indicative of exeō; see further at etymology 1 above.

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

   Synonyms: exeat

   • c. 1590 (date written), [John Lyly], Mother Bombie. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Thomas Creede, for Cuthbert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC ↗, Act III, scene iv, signature [E4], verso ↗:

     I take no mony, but good vvords, raile not if I tell true, if I do not reuenge. Farevvell. Exit Bom[bie].

   • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene iii], page 288 ↗, column 2:

     A ſauage clamor? / Well may I get a-boord: This is the Chace, / I am gone for euer. / Exit purſued by a Beare.

• exeunt

Chosen for relation to exit.

exit

1. (medicine) Acronym of ex utero intrapartum treatment: a specialized surgical procedure used to deliver babies who have airway compression.