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- Dictionaryegress/ˈiːɡrɛs/
noun
- 1. the action of going out of or leaving a place: formal "direct means of access and egress for passengers" Similar Opposite
- 2. another term for emersion
verb
- 1. go out of or leave (a place): US "they'd egress the area by heading south-west"
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The meaning of EGRESS is a place or means of going out : exit. How to use egress in a sentence.
the act or way of leaving a place: The main egress from the restaurant had been blocked off. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Departing. abandon ship. abandonment. absquatulate. backward. move. p.o.q. peel away/off. piss off. pull out. pull something off. push along. sea. track. vacate. vamoose. walk off (somewhere) walk out.
the act or way of leaving a place: The main egress from the restaurant had been blocked off. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Departing. abandon ship. abandonment. absquatulate. backward. move. p.o.q. peel away/off. piss off. pull out. pull something off. push along. sea. track. vacate. vamoose. walk off (somewhere) walk out.
Egress definition: the act or an instance of going, especially from an enclosed place.. See examples of EGRESS used in a sentence.
If you want to leave a place, you need a means of egress, or a way to exit, such as a door or window. It was a beautiful old house, but without enough ways of egress, they needed outdoor fire-stairs for reaching the upper floors.
egress in British English. noun (ˈiːɡrɛs ) 1. Also called: egression. the act of going or coming out; emergence. 2. a way out, such as a path; exit. 3. the right or permission to go out or depart.
What does the noun egress mean? There are five meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun egress. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
Definition of egress noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Origin of egress 1 First recorded in 1530–40; from Latin ēgressus “an escape, exit,” noun use of past participle of ēgred(ī) “to go out,” from ē- e- 1 + -gredī, combining form of gradī “to go, step”; cf. grade
A way out; exit. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. The emergence of a celestial body from eclipse or occultation. American Heritage. The process of exiting or leaving. Wiktionary. More Noun Definitions (1) Synonyms: emersion. issue. emergence. egression. passage. outlet. exit. departure. way-out.
