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exodus

[ ek-suh-duhs ]

noun

  1. a going out; a departure or emigration, usually of a large number of people:

    the summer exodus to the country and shore.

  2. the Exodus, the departure of the Israelites from Egypt under Moses.
  3. (initial capital letter) the second book of the Bible, containing an account of the Exodus. : Ex.


Exodus

1

/ ˈɛksədəs /

noun

  1. the Exodus
    the Exodus the departure of the Israelites from Egypt led by Moses
  2. the second book of the Old Testament, recounting the events connected with this and the divine visitation of Moses at Mount Sinai


exodus

2

/ ˈɛksədəs /

noun

  1. the act or an instance of going out

Exodus

  1. The second book of the Old Testament ; it tells of the departure of the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt (see also Egypt ), made possible by the ten plagues of Egypt and the parting of the Red Sea . Moses led them, and their destination was the Promised Land . God guided them by sending a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, to show them the way they should go. God also fed them with manna and gave them water out of a solid rock. Because of their frequent complaining and failure to trust him, however, God made them stay in the desert for forty years before entering the Promised Land. God gave them the Ten Commandments and the rest of the Mosaic law on Mount Sinai during the Exodus. Exodus is a Greek word meaning “departure.”


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Word History and Origins

Origin of exodus1

First recorded before 1000; from Late Latin, the name of the second book of the Bible, from Greek éxodos “a going out, marching out,” equivalent to ex- “out of” + (h)odós “way”; ex- 3

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Word History and Origins

Origin of exodus1

C17: via Latin from Greek exodos from ex- 1+ hodos way

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Example Sentences

Maybe even a mass exodus of Venezuelan women looking to get breast implants done in Colombia.

But the day before the final exodus, Christians were informed jizya was no longer an option.

If the bill were to become law, Vinnichenko predicts “a mass exodus” of LGBT families, including her own.

For New Yorkers, the mass exodus tends to have one destination in mind: The Hamptons.

But does the talent exodus signal trouble at the paper or only a changed media landscape?

There was no crowding or impeding haste in their dumb exodus.

From the city there was reported exodus of men whose names were enrolled for military service.

We saw the blonde behind the wheel and Uncle Peter seated beside her, evidently still protesting the hasty exodus.

One hears a frightful lot of nonsense about the Rural Exodus and the degeneration wrought by town life upon our population.

In a big pastoral exodus like the present, it is simply impossible to keep strays out of moving herds.

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