exeunt

[ ek-see-uhnt, -oont ]

verb (used without object)

1. (they) go offstage (used formerly as a stage direction, usually preceding the names of the characters):

   Exeunt soldiers and townspeople.

exeunt

/ ˈɛksɪˌʌnt /

(no translation)

1. they go out: used as a stage direction

exeunt

1. A stage direction indicating that two or more actors leave the stage. Exeunt is Latin for “They go out.”

Word History and Origins

Origin of exeunt¹

1475–85; < Latin, 3rd person plural present indicative of exīre to exit ¹

Example Sentences

Another pal, Josh, a television executive, wrote: “Pyrotechnics and overwrought hoopla. It’s all too loud and too long, and there’s way too much smoke. Exeunt the poor players. Bring on the commercials!”

From New York Times

But his poems were never without wit, grace and rigor, even when they were about the end of things, as in the two-stanza “Exeunt:”

From New York Times

She’s the first lady in full since Melania got tired of hookers and rumors of hookers and hightailed it for her native Slovenia with Barron in tow—exeunt pursued by Twitter trolls—and yet, and still, it is unassuming inscrutable Kushner to whom my panicked eyes return: Harvard man, senior adviser, well-scrubbed schoolboy at 39.

From Slate

At no point did anyone exeunt pursued by a bear.

From Slate

I’m concerned that I might have a sudden attack of Deathbed Gravity Syndrome, and instead say something insipid, like, “All you need is love,” or something phony poetic, like “It is time for that sweet oblivion which awaits us all” or something wildly overdramatic, like “Exeunt omnes, friends and lovers, I shall go it alone from here on.”

From Washington Post