egress
/ˈiːɡɹɛs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.67 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The end of the transit of a celestial body through the disk of an apparently larger one.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The window provides an egress in the event of an emergency."
- "Gates of burning adamant, / Barred over us, prohibit all egress."
- "Looking about him while in this state of suspense, Charles Darnay observed that the gate was held by a mixed guard of soldiers and patriots, the latter far outnumbering the former; and that while ingress into the city for peasants’ carts bringing in supplies, and for similar traffic and traffickers, was easy enough, egress, even for the homeliest people, was very difficult."
- "Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat."
- "Egress traffic is network traffic that begins inside a network and proceeds through its routers to its destination somewhere outside the network. […] While network ingress filtering makes Internet traffic traceable to its source, egress filtering helps ensure that unauthorized or malicious traffic never leaves the network."
- "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."
Etymology
From Latin ēgressus, from ex- + gressus, literally “out-way”.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ēgressus, ēgressum
Usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
ingress, egress, and regress
means of egress