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

exile

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

   He lived in exile.

   They chose exile rather than assimilation.

   • c. 1590–1591, William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene iv]:

     Let them be recalled from their exile.

   Synonyms: banishment

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

   • c. 1588–1593, William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene iii]:

     Thou art an exile, and thou must not stay.

   She lived as an exile.
   Synonyms: expatriate, expat

• French: exil
• German: Exil
• 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; past and past participle exiled)

1. (transitive) To send into exile.
   • RQ

     Exiled from eternal God.

     c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene viii]:

     Calling home our exiled friends abroad.

   Synonyms: banish, forban

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