n.
- a way out of a building, room, or passenger vehicle.
▸a place for traffic to leave a major road or roundabout.
- an act of leaving; a departure.
- literary a person's death.
v.
(exits, exiting, exited)
- go out of or leave a place.
▸
(
exit)
(as a stage direction) indicating that a character leaves the stage:
exit Pamela.
- literary die.
- Computing terminate a process or program.
- Bridge relinquish the lead.
Etymology
C16: from L. exit ‘he or she goes out’, third person sing. pres. tense of exire, from ex- ‘out’ + ire ‘go’.