exile
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English exil, borrowed from Old French essil, exil, from Latin exsilium, exilium, derived from exsul, exul.
Pronunciation Nounexile
- (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.
- (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)
- (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)
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