sortie

English

Etymology

Borrowing from French sortie

Noun

sortie (plural sorties)

1. (military) An offensive military mission. Used originally to mean an attack from a fortress, but most commonly used today to describe a single mission by a military aircraft.

Verb

sortie (third-person singular simple present sorties, present participle sortying or sortieing, simple past and past participle sortied)

1. (transitive) To sally.

Synonyms

• (an offensive military mission): scramble

Translations

an offensive mission

• Polish: desant (pl), wypad (pl)

Anagrams

• storie, Tories, tories, triose

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

sortie f (plural sorties)

1. An exit or way out.
2. The action of exiting or going out of a place.
3. The end; final part of.
4. The release of a film, book, album etc.
5. A school outing or trip lasting no longer than a day.
6. (military) Leave, sally, sortie

Usage notes

• The meaning "end, release" is used of things such as school, theater etc. where a literal "exit" also occurs.

Derived terms

• de sortie
• sortie de bain
• sortie de capitaux
• sortie de route
• sortie de secours
• sortie des artistes

See also

• entrée

Verb

sortie f

1. feminine past participle of sortir

Anagrams

• orties, rôties, seroit, sirote, siroté