From Middle English exil, borrowed from Old French essil, exil, from Latin exsilium, exilium, derived from exsul, exul.

• (British, America) IPA: /ˈɛɡˌzaɪl/, /ˈɛkˌsaɪl/
• IPA: /ɪɡˈzaɪl/

exile

1. (uncountable) The state of being banished from one's home or country.

   Synonyms: banishment

   He lived in exile.

   They chose exile rather than assimilation.

   • c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act V, scene iv]:

     Let them be recalled from their exile.

2. (countable) Someone who is banished from his home or country.

   Synonyms: expatriate

   She lived as an exile, and did her best to make the most out of such life.

   • c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene iii]:

     Thou art an exile, and thou must not stay.

• French: exil
• German: Exil, Verbannung
• Italian: esilio
• Portuguese: exílio, desterro
• Russian: ссы́лка
• Spanish: exilio, destierro

• French: exilé
• German: Exilant, Exilantin, Verbannter
• Italian: esiliato, esule
• Portuguese: exilado
• Russian: ссы́льный
• Spanish: exiliado, desterrado

exile (exiles, present participle exiling; simple past and past participle exiled)

1. (transitive) To send (someone or something) into exile.

   Synonyms: banish, forban, expatriate#Verb

   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act V, scene viii]:

     Calling home our exiled friends abroad.

   • 1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Palace of Art”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC ↗, stanza LXVIII, page 87 ↗:

     She, mouldering with the dull earth's mouldering sod, / Inwrapt tenfold in slothful shame, / Lay there exiled from eternal God, / Lost to her place and name.

• French: exiler
• German: ins Exil schicken, exilieren
• Italian: esiliare
• Portuguese: exilar, desterrar
• Russian: вы́сылать
• Spanish: exiliar, desterrar, proscribir, trasterrar (esp. Mexico)