exodus
noun/ˈeksədəs/
/ˈeksədəs/
[singular] (formal or humorous)- exodus (from…) (to…) a situation in which many people leave a place at the same time
- the mass exodus from Paris to the country in the summer
- The play was so awful that there was a general exodus from the theatre at the interval.
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Greek exodos, from ex- ‘out of’ + hodos ‘way’.
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