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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The act of coming or going out; emergence.
  2. n. The right to leave or go out: denied the refugees egress.
  3. n. A path or opening for going out; an exit.
  4. n. Astronomy The emergence of a celestial body from eclipse or occultation.
  5. v. To go out; emerge.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The act of going or issuing out; a going or passing out; departure, especially from an inclosed or confined place.
  2. n. Provision for passing out; a means or place of exit.
  3. n. In astronomy, the passing of a star, planet, or satellite (except the moon) out from behind or before the disk of the sun, the moon, or a planet.
  4. To go out; depart; leave.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An exit or way out
  2. n. The process of exiting or leaving.
  3. n. astronomy The end of the apparent transit of a small astronomical body over the disk of a larger one.
  4. v. intransitive To exit or leave; to go or come out.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure.
  2. n. (Astron.) The passing off from the sun's disk of an inferior planet, in a transit.
  3. v. To go out; to depart; to leave.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. come out of
  2. n. the becoming visible
  3. n. (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse
  4. n. the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent

Etymologies

  1. From Latin ēgressus, from ex- + gressus (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin ēgressus, from past participle of ēgredī, to go out : ē-, ex-, ex- + gradī, to go. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “She said that she and her colleague has a responsibility to customers to allow them easy ingress and egress from the station.”

    The Guardian: Newspaper 'war' at the Embankment

  • “The NYPD also agreed to adopt written policies that ensure those lawfully exercising their First Amendment rights can gain access to protest areas, have adequate means of ingress and egress from the areas set aside for the protest, and that police provide adequate warning and an opportunity to disperse prior to using the Mounted Unit for crowd control.”

    Civil Rights

  • “From Leonardo's point of view, however, the eyes were window - (or velo -) like because they provided the soul with two means of egress from the body, not because they permitted others to see into oneself.”

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro

  • “I was stationed in Korea, and my team chief and I would plan our egress from the site.”

    Matthew Yglesias » Tuesday MANPAD Blogging

  • “Judge Graffeo raises a good point in regard to the difficulty that this holding presents in determining when a particular means of ingress and egress is "primarily" used to access a common carrier.”

    Personal Injury

  • “Where, as here, a stairwell or approach is primarily used as a means of access to and egress from the common carrier, that carrier has a duty to exercise reasonable care to see that such means of approach remain in a safe condition or, where appropriate, to take such precautions or give such warnings as would protect those using such area against unforeseen danger.”

    Personal Injury

  • “The first involves the loss prevention employee physically preventing my egress from the property.”

    Boing Boing

  • “[Link] The latrines were also a means of egress from the camp: at least ten prisoners are known to have escaped from Johnson's Island, and evidence has been found of tunnels leading from the "sinks" to the stockade wall.”

    Latrine Duty

  • “And they built a new causeway to provide easier egress from the city for those fleeing the next hurricane.”

    Should New Orleans be rebuilt? « BuzzMachine

  • “Is the treaty an egress from the cul-de-sac of aboriginal poverty?”

    Sovereignty Without the Referndum: Chief Mountain Speaks on Bay Street

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synonyms (7)

Words with the same meaning

  1. departure
  1. depart
  1. leave
  1. exit
  1. outlet
  1. come out
  1. go out

antonyms (3)

Words with the opposite meaning

  1. come in
  1. enter
  1. go in

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. reappearance

hyponyms (8)

Words that are more specific

  1. come out
  1. leak
  1. fall
  1. radiate
  1. fallout
  1. pop out
  1. escape
  1. debouch

same context (4)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. ingress
  1. 6to4
  1. getaway
  1. docking

rhymes (88)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Bess
  2. Es
  3. Etess
  4. Fs
  5. Hess
  6. Hesse
  7. Ins
  8. Jess
  9. Les
  10. Ness
  11. S
  12. S.
  13. Tess
  14. Wes
  15. abs
  16. acquiesce
  17. address
  1. aggress
  2. assess
  3. attests
  4. bless
  5. caress
  6. ches
  7. chess
  8. coalesce
  9. compress
  10. confess
  11. contests
  12. convalesce
  13. cress
  14. depress
  15. digests
  16. digress
  17. dispossess
  1. distress
  2. dress
  3. ers
  4. es
  5. ess
  6. excess
  7. express
  8. fess
  9. finesse
  10. fluoresce
  11. gess
  12. guess
  13. impress
  14. ins
  15. jess
  16. kess
  17. largesse
  1. las
  2. les
  3. less
  4. mess
  5. ness
  6. nevertheless
  7. noblesse
  8. nonetheless
  9. obsess
  10. oppress
  11. pos
  12. possess
  13. press
  14. profess
  15. progress
  16. protests
  17. reassess
  1. recess
  2. redress
  3. regress
  4. reinvests
  5. repossess
  6. repress
  7. requests
  8. s
  9. s.
  10. simplesse
  11. stress
  12. success
  13. suppress
  14. transgress
  15. tress
  16. undress
  17. unless
  1. us
  2. vs
  3. yes

reverse dictionary (32)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. exit
  2. egression
  3. lock
  4. exhaust
  5. blockade
  6. colocentesis
  1. issue
  2. embar
  3. air valve
  4. egress
  5. open
  6. shut
  1. aperture
  2. block
  3. close
  4. cordon
  5. fence
  6. fistula
  1. gateway
  2. ingress
  3. investment
  4. lot
  5. manhole
  6. outlet
  1. platform
  2. port-bar
  3. sally port
  4. stoma
  5. by-pass
  6. jacketing
  1. triclinium
  2. vomitory

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  • asativum I knew there was nothing wrong with regressing now and then. Woo-hoo! Oct 19, 2008

  • prowsej In property law, ingress, egress and regress are the rights of a person (such as a lessee) to enter, leave, and return to a property, respectively. Oct 19, 2008

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