évad

Évad is not a standard lexical item with a widely recognized meaning in major languages. In most contexts it is best understood as a truncation or misspelling related to French forms derived from the verb évader or the adjective-noun évadé.

In French, évader means to escape, and évadé refers to someone who has escaped confinement, typically from imprisonment or detention. The feminine form is évadée. As a noun, évadé is used in journalism, literature, and everyday speech to describe an escapee; for example, un évadé s’est échappé. The adjective évadé can describe something or someone that has escaped, such as a prisonnier évadé.

Outside French, the sequence é-v-a-d is not established as a standalone term with a fixed meaning. It may appear as a surname, a component of a place name, or a proper noun in non-French contexts, where its interpretation is not related to the French verb. When encountered in isolation, évad is typically a typographical error, an incomplete form, or a proper noun whose meaning must be inferred from surrounding text.

See also: évader, évadé, évadée, évasion.