Definition: exit

Source: WordNet (r) 1.7

exit
     n 1: an opening that permits escape or release; "he blocked the
          way out"; "the canyon had only one issue" [syn: issue,
           outlet, way out]
     2: euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his
        passing" [syn: passing, loss, departure, expiration,
         going, release]
     3: the act of going out
     v 1: move out of or depart from; "leave the room"; "the fugitive
          has left the country" [syn: go out, get out, leave]
          [ant: enter]
     2: lose the lead, in card games
     3: pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes
        and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from
        cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The
        patient went peacefully" [syn: die, decease, perish,
         go, pass away, expire, pass] [ant: be born]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Exit \Ex"it\, n. [See 1st Exit.]
   1. The departure of a player from the stage, when he has
      performed his part.

            They have their exits and their entrances. --Shak.

   2. Any departure; the act of quitting the stage of action or
      of life; death; as, to make one's exit.

            Sighs for his exit, vulgarly called death. --Cowper.

   3. A way of departure; passage out of a place; egress; way
      out.

            Forcing he water forth thought its ordinary exists.
                                                  --Woodward.

Exit \Ex"it\ [L., 3d pers. sing. pres. of exire to go out. See
   Exeunt, Issue.]
   He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit
   Macbeth.

   Note: The Latin words exit (he or she goes out), and exeunt (
         they go out), are used in dramatic writings to indicate
         the time of withdrawal from the stage of one or more of
         the actors.