English

Noun

sortie ‎(plural sorties)

1. (military) An attack made by troops from a besieged position.

1. (military) An operational flight carried out by a single military aircraft.

   Russia said it carried out 55 sorties in the last 24 hours.‎

Translations

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

Anagrams

• storie, Tories, tories, triose

French

Etymology

From Latin sortīrī, present active infinitive of sortior ‎(“cast lots, divide, receive”), possibly influenced by a derivative of surgō ‎(“get up, arise”). Compare Italian sortire ‎(“produce”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔʁ.ti/

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

See also

• entrée

Participle

sortie

1. feminine singular of the past participle of sortir

Anagrams

• orties, rôties, seroit, sirote, siroté