egress

1. 1.

   come out of

   “Water issued from the hole in the wall”

   “The words seemed to come out by themselves”

   Synonymsissueemergecome outcome forthgo forth

   Narrowerpop outradiateleakescapefalldebouchcome out

Other forms of egress

plural

egresses·

past tense

egressed·

present participle

egressing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about egress

What does egress mean?

egress means "(astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in egress?

egress has 2 syllables: e-gress. The stress falls on "gress". In IPA it is /ɪˈɡɹɛs/.

What is another word for egress?

Close synonyms include emersion, emergence, issue, egression, emergence. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of egress?

The recorded antonyms are ingress.

Is egress a common word?

egress is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with egress?

4 words rhyme with egress. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.