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exodos

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A final scene or departure in a play, especially a tragedy.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Ancient-Greek

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Examples

  • 1994, Carlo Ferdinando Russo (author and translator), Aristophanes: An Author for the Stage, [1962, Aristofane autore di teatro], page 173, The exodos requires three actors, one for the Athenian (thirty iambic trimeters), one for his companion (five iambic trimeters) and one for the Spartan Singer (three iambic trimeters and around forty lyrical lines).

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History

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔξοδος (éxodos, “a departure”). Doublet of exodus.