exile
Etymology

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

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

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.
Translations Translations Verb

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.
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