egress
/ˈiːɡɹɛs/
egress noun: an exit or way out.
Noun
egress (countable and uncountable, plural egresses)
- An exit or way out.
- The window provides an egress in the event of an emergency.
- Gates of burning adamant, / Barred over us, prohibit all egress.1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
- The process of exiting or leaving.
- Buildings or portions thereof shall be provided with a means of egress system as required this chapter. The provisions of this chapter shall control the design, construction and arrangement of means egress components required to provide an approved means of egress from structures and portions...2003, International Building Code (IBC), Chapter 10 section 1001.1
- Although the primary rationale for selection of antigenic and phase variants is believed to be the evasion of host antibodies resulting in persistence, other possibilities exist, such as differential adherence to host cells or regulation of host cell invasion and egress.2017 July 15, Chris L McGowin, Patricia A Totten, “The Unique Microbiology and Molecular Pathogenesis of Mycoplasma genitalium”, in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, volume 216, number suppl_2...
- Synonyms:
- departure
- The end of the transit of a celestial body through the disk of an apparently larger one.
Verb
IPA/ɪˈɡɹɛs/
egress (third-person singular simple present egresses, present participle egressing, simple past and past participle egressed)
egress meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
egress in Tamil
- வெளியேறுதல், வெளிப்போதல், வெளியேற்றம், வெளிவாய், வெளிவாயில்
egress in Urdu
- گزر, خروج, کوچ
egress in Bengali
- বাইরে যাওয়ার পথ, নির্গমন পথ, বের হয়ে আসার কাজ
egress in Malayalam
- exit, way out, escape route
- ബഹിർഗ്ഗമനം, വെളിയിലേക്കുള്ള ഗതി, നിർഗ്ഗമം, നിർഗ്ഗമനം, വിസരം, നിർഗ്ഗമനമാർഗ്ഗം
- departure, exit, withdrawal
- വേർപാട്, പ്രയാണം, നിർഗ്ഗമം, പുറമ്പോക്ക്, പുറപ്പാട്, വിസംയോഗം
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- egress in Kannada
- ಹೊರದಾರಿ, ತೆರಳ್ಕೆ
Examples of egress in a sentence
- We also found that the only emergency egress from the tram was by smashing the front or rear windscreens, and that emergency lighting had failed when the tram overturned.2021 December 29, Dominique Louis, “Causal analysis: crashworthiness at Sandilands”, in RAIL, number 947, page 33:
- Buildings or portions thereof shall be provided with a means of egress system as required this chapter.2003, International Building Code (IBC), Chapter 10 section 1001.1:
- Now the crumpled structure lies across the Patapsco River outlet, blocking egress from the point like a kicked-over toy.2024, Peter Grier, Key Bridge is gone. It leaves a hole in Baltimore’s blue-collar soul., in: The Christian Science Monitor, March 28 2024
Synonyms of egress
Antonyms
Forms of egress
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | egresses |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | egresses |
| present participle | egressing |
| past participle | egressed |
| past | egressed |
Origin of egress
From Latin ēgressus, from ex- + gressus, literally “out-way”.
From Latin ēgressum, past participle of ēgredior.
Words formed from egress
- ingress, egress, and regress
- means of egress
Questions about egress
- What does egress mean?
- Egress means an exit or way out.
- What is egress in Tamil?
- Egress in Tamil is வெளியேறுதல், வெளிப்போதல், வெளியேற்றம். See Egress meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use egress in a sentence?
- We also found that the only emergency egress from the tram was by smashing the front or rear windscreens, and that emergency lighting had failed when the tram overturned.
- What part of speech is egress?
- Egress can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce egress?
- Egress is pronounced /ˈiːɡɹɛs/.
- What is the plural of egress?
- The plural of egress is egresses.
Words near egress in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: egress (page history and authors); egress (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); egress (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Egress (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); egress (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); egress (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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