Definition of "exode" []

• Departure; exodus, especially the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt (noun)
• The final chorus; the catastrophe. (noun)
• A comic afterpiece, either a farce or a travesty. (noun)

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• "The writer gives the history from the exode to the retreat from"
• "They were the identical voices of the sea that we heard, -- as if these themselves were not properly natives of the deep, but mountain voices, torn away from their proper homes, and perpetually wailing their exode in a chant which is mournful enough to be that of exile."
• "The potato-famine in Ireland (1848) gave an overwhelming impetus to the exode of a race which had never known a racial baptism; and, lastly, the Germans flying from the conscription, the blood tax of the Fatherland, carried with them over the ocean a transcendentalism which has engendered the wildest theories of socialism and communism."