Pronunciation Noun
exile
- (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
- (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)
- (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
- RQ
- 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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