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
- A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese.
- (dated, UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) Leave of absence from a public school or college.
- (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
- exeats
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include excommunicate, expulsation, abscondment, expelee, exile, ouster.
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