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| (they) go offstage (used formerly as a stage direction, usually preceding the names of the characters): Exeunt soldiers and townspeople. |
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Exeunt
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Used as a stage direction to indicate that two or more performers leave the stage. [Latin, third person pl. of exīre, to go out; see exit.] |
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exeunt
stage direction, 1485, from L., lit. "they go out" (see exit).
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exeunt [(ek-see-uhnt, ek-see-oont)]
A stage direction indicating that two or more actors leave the stage. Exeunt is Latin for “They go out.”
[Chapter:] Conventions of Written English
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Exeunt
Ex"e*unt\ [L., 3d pers. pl. pres. of exire to go out.] They go out, or retire from the scene; as, exeunt all except Hamlet. See 1st Exit.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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