ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Exeat

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Exeat is a noun meaning A license or permit for absence from a university or a religious house (such as a monastery).

Meaning

A license or permit for absence from a university or a religious house (such as a monastery).

More Meanings

  1. A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese.
  2. (dated, UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) Leave of absence from a public school or college.
  3. (obsolete, theater) A stage direction to leave the stage.

Example Sentences

[I]t was impossible to imagine her doing anything except eating ice-cream and smoking, like a child on an exeat from school.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include excommunicate, expulsation, abscondment, expelee, exile, ouster.

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