About The Word Exile
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What's The Definition Of Exile?
[n] the act of expelling a person from their native land; "men in exile dream of hope"; "his deportation to a penal colony"; "the expatriation of wealthy farmers"; "the sentence was one of transportation for life"
[n] expelled from home or country by authority [n] voluntarily absent from home or country [v] expel from a country Synonyms | Synonyms for Exile: deport | deportation | deportee | expatriate | expatriate | expatriation | transportation Related Terms | Find terms related to Exile: abstract | alien | alienate | ban | banish | banishment | bar | barbarian | blackball | blackballing | cast off | cast out | castaway | chuck | clear | clear away | clear out | clear the decks | clearance | cut | cut out | declasse | defrocking | degradation | demotion | depluming | deport | deportation | deported population | deportee | deprivation | deracine | derelict | detachment | diaspora | disbarment | discard | disfellowship | disjunction | dispersion | displace | displaced person | displacement | displuming | disposal | dispose of | disposition | dispossess | DP | drive out | eject | ejection | elide | eliminate | elimination | emigrant | emigrate | emigration | emigre | eradicate | eradication | evacuate | evacue | evacuee | evict | evictee | exclude | exclusion | excommunicate | excommunication | expatriate | expatriation | expel | expellee | expulsion | extradite | extradition | foreign devil | foreigner | fugitate | fugitation | get quit of | get rid of | get shut of | gringo | immigrant | in-migrant | Ishmael | leper | liquidate | liquidation | maroon | migrant | migration | migrator | migratory worker | nonperson | ostracism | ostracization | ostracize | oust | outcast | outcast of society | outcaste | outlander | outlaw | outlawing | outlawry | out-migrant | out-migrate | out-migration | outsider | pariah | persona non grata | pick out | proscribe | purge | refugee | relegate | relegation | remigrate | remigration | removal | remove | riddance | root out | root up | rusticate | rustication | scattering | send away | send down | send to Coventry | separation | severance | snub | social outcast | spurn | stateless person | stranger | strike off | strike out | stripping | suspension | the Wandering Jew | throw over | throw overboard | thrust out | tramontane | transport | transportation | trekker | Uitlander | ultramontane | unacceptable person | undesirable | unfrocking | unperson | untouchable | wanderer | weed out | wetback | withdrawal See Also | absentee | alien | banishment | expel | foreigner | kick out | noncitizen | outlander | proscription | refugee | remittance man | throw out Exile In Webster's Dictionary \Ex"ile\, n. [OE. exil, fr. L. exilium, exsilium, fr.
exsuil one who quits, or is banished from, his native soil;
ex out + solum ground, land, soil, or perh. fr.the root of
salire to leap, spring; cf. F. exil. Cf. {Sole} of the foot,
{Saltation}.]
1. Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion
from one's home by the civil authority; banishment;
sometimes, voluntary separation from one's native country.
Let them be recalled from their exile. --Shak.
2. The person expelled from his country by authority; also,
one who separates himself from his home.
Thou art in exile, and thou must not stay. --Shak.
Syn: Banishment; proscription; expulsion.
\Ex"ile\v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Exiled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Exiling}.] To banish or expel from one's own country or home; to drive away. ``Exiled from eternal God.'' --Tennyson. Calling home our exiled friends abroad. --Shak. Syn: See {Banish}. \Ex*ile"\, a. [L. exilis.] Small; slender; thin; fine. [Obs.] ``An exile sound.'' --Bacon. |
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