exodus en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈɛksədəs/
- (US) audio
- /ˈɛɡzədəs/
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs Proto-Hellenic *eks Ancient Greek ἐκ (ek) Ancient Greek ἐξ- (ex-) Proto-Indo-European *sed-der. Proto-Indo-European *sodós? Proto-Hellenic *hodós Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós) Ancient Greek ἔξοδος (éxodos)der. Latin exodusder. English exodus From Latin exodus, from Ancient Greek ἔξοδος (éxodos, “expedition, procession, departure”). Doublet of exodos. From late Old English only as a proper noun, Exodus, the biblical book; use as a common noun is from the early 17th century.
Meanings
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A sudden departure of a large number of people.
Further, rural exodus, especially among young generations who refuse to engage themselves in hard, misremunerated agricultural work, is also a cause of the current crisis.
1989, African Study Monographs - Volume 10, page 6:Now if, as we have seen good reason for believing, the documents were composed within forty or fifty years after the leaving of Egypt, it is hard to believe that their authors should have been so confused and so forgetful that they confounded two city-lands so distinct and separate as Goshen and Raamses, and were ignorant as to which was really the Israelite habitat when in Egypt. There suggests itself at once the hypothetical question, Were there two exodi, one from Raamses and the other from Goshen? […] Only on the hypothesis of two exodi, one to the south, the other to the north, do the two accounts of the route out of Egypt become explainable.
1909, Olaf A[lfred] Toffteen, The Historic Exodus (Researches in Biblical Archaeology), Chicago, Ill.: The University of Chicago Press, pages 147 (Differences Between P and JED.—The Settlements in Egypt) and 164 (Differences Between P and JED.—The Going-out from Egypt):While this report acknowledged that resentment of military conscription without the provision of political rights was one reason for the exodus, it went on to recommend that the entire colonial system in Algeria needed reform to prevent future exodi.
2000, Ricardo René Larémont, Islam and the Politics of Resistance in Algeria, 1783-1992, Africa World Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 54:That Artapanus was able to give the name of the pharaoh involved in his version of the story shows that this was known in his time (ca 250 BCE) and that the amalgamation of the different exodi into one epic must have taken place around that time or later.
2016, Gijsbert J.B. Sulman, Facts, Fiction, and the Bible: The Truth Behind the Stories in the Old Testament, Balboa Press, →ISBN:At 18ʰ00′, 21 minutes before sunset, the migrants started to depart in waves as already described for other exodi; […]
1960, Mosquito News, volume 20, American Mosquito Control Association, page 145:It's a 58-minute journey with seven intermediate stops, including a reversal at Cromer - another popular destination. The train starts to empty at North Walsham, and then there is an exodus at Cromer. The coach is almost empty for the final few miles into Sheringham.
2025 October 15, 'Mystery Shopper', “About Anglia... and high scores”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 54:There were no less than three exodi from Egypt. The first was the one just named, viz: the expulsion of two hundred and forty thousand Cuthites by Halisphragmuthosis; this occurred about two hundred years before the entrance of the Israelitish shepherds into Egypt. The second exodus was that of this once holy people, under the guidance of the Almighty, through his servant Moses, the account of which we have in profane history, substantiated in the minutest particulars by the sacred writings given us through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, which protected and preserved the race. But the third is not so generally known.
1839, John Delafield Jr., An Inquiry into the Origin of the Antiquities of America, Cincinnati, Oh.: N. G. Burgess & Co., page 75:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| exodusses | Number=Plur | nonstandard | lexicographic |
| exodi | Number=Plur | hypercorrect | lexicographic |
| exodus | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| exoduses | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (46)
sk exodus (sudden departure) · hy զանգվածային մեկնում (sudden departure) · de Exodus (sudden departure) · sh егзо́дус (sudden departure) · sv uttåg (sudden departure) · cs exodus (sudden departure) · ja 退去 (sudden departure) · sh egzódus (sudden departure) · bg изсе́лване (sudden departure) · sl éksodus (sudden departure) · ro exod (sudden departure) · fi eksodus (sudden departure) · gl éxodo (sudden departure) · eo eliro (sudden departure) · xag 𐔸𐔰𐔱𐕈𐕆𐔴𐕚𐕒𐕡𐕎 (sudden departure) · fr exode (sudden departure) · be зыхо́д (sudden departure) · uk ви́хід (sudden departure) · oc exòde (sudden departure) · id eksodus (sudden departure) · nl exodus (sudden departure) · ca èxode (sudden departure) · nl uittocht (sudden departure) · sv exodus (sudden departure) · ko 탈출 (sudden departure) · got 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌿𐌽𐍃 (sudden departure) · mk егзо́дус (sudden departure) · ko 이동 (sudden departure) · bg и́зход (sudden departure) · pt êxodo (sudden departure) · pl exodus (sudden departure) · ja 脱出 (sudden departure) · hu kivonulás (sudden departure) · ru исхо́д (sudden departure) · el έξοδος (sudden departure) · hy գաղթ (sudden departure) · ja 移動 (sudden departure) · uk ма́совий від'ї́зд (sudden departure) · cmn 走出 (sudden departure) · cmn 離去 /离去 (sudden departure) · be вы́хад (sudden departure) · es éxodo (sudden departure) · ky үркүн (sudden departure) · it esodo (sudden departure) · hy արտագաղթ (sudden departure) · fi joukkopako (sudden departure)