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Definition of Exile

1. Verb. Expel from a country. "The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government's actions"

2. Noun. A person who is voluntarily absent from home or country. "American expatriates"

3. Noun. A person who is expelled from home or country by authority.

4. Noun. The act of expelling a person from their native land. "The sentence was one of transportation for life"

Definition of Exile

1. n. 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.

2. v. t. To banish or expel from one's own country or home; to drive away.

3. a. Small; slender; thin; fine.

Definition of Exile

1. Noun. The state of being banished from one's home or country. ¹

2. Noun. Someone who is banished from one's home or country. ¹

3. Verb. To send into exile. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Exile

1. to banish from one's own country [v -ILED, -ILING, -ILES] : EXILABLE [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exile

exigent exigenter exigenters exigently exigents exigible exiguities exiguity exiguous exiguously

exiguousness exiguousnesses exilable exilarch exilarchs exile (current term) exiled exilement exilements exiler

exilers exiles exilian exilic exiling exilities exilition exility eximious eximiously

Literary usage of Exile

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"Pint exile. Yes,— " Doth not a mort ing like this make amende " for—losing ... Pint exile. The emancipated slaves of St. Stephens' seem all like the swallow ..."

2. The Law of Nations: Or, Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty (1883)
"EX- Finally, exile is another manner of leaving our country, lie and ba- An exile is a man driven from the place of his settlement, ..."

3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"Hia exile. After three years' exile, he received the pleasing AS t«5-705. intelligence that his injury was avenged by a second revolution, and that Leontius ..."

4. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1874)
"In Milan, in every ' street, the noble palace of some exile is a barrack, and ' dirty soldiers ... Where should he be '" but in exile ! Where could he be ! ..."

5. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"After the first speech the person accused of premeditated homicide was mercifully permitted to go into exile, ¡n which case hi* property was confiscated, ..."

6. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"1), he w:is carried into exile by Nebuchadnezzar in 599 Bc With others of his compatriots he was settled at a place called Tel-Abib (" Cornhill "), on the ..."

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