exeunt

American  

[ek-see-uhnt, -oont] / ˈɛk si ənt, -ˌʊnt /

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.

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exeunt British  

/ ˈɛksɪˌʌnt /

1. they go out: used as a stage direction

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exeunt Cultural  

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

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Etymology

Origin of exeunt

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

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

Few others of his generation would think to put “lemon telenovela” or “texasburger” in a poem, or write these lines: “Thanks / to a snakeskin toupee, my grayish push boots / exhale new patina / prestige. Exeunt the Kardashians.”

From The New Yorker