Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The condition or period of being forced to live away from one's native country or home, especially as a punishment.
- noun The condition or period of self-imposed absence from one's country or home.
- noun One who lives away from one's native country, whether because of expulsion or voluntary absence.
- transitive verb To send into exile; banish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Slender; thin; fine; light.
- To banish from a country or from a particular jurisdiction by authority, with a prohibition of return, for a limited time or for life; expatriate.
- Hence To constrain to abandon country or home; drive to a foreign country, literally or figuratively; expel.
- noun Expulsion from one's country or home by an authoritative decree, for a definite period or in perpetuity; banishment; expatriation: as, the exile of Napoleon; exile to Siberia.
- noun Residence in a foreign land or a remote place enforced by the government of which one has been a subject or citizen, or by stress of circumstances; separation from one's native or chosen home or country and friends; the condition of living in banishment.
- noun Removal.
- noun A banished person; a person expelled from his country or home by authority, or separated from it by necessity: as, Siberian exiles; a band of exiles.
- noun Synonyms Proscription, expulsion, ostracism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun The person expelled from his country by authority; also, one who separates himself from his home.
- transitive verb To banish or expel from one's own country or home; to drive away.
- adjective obsolete Small; slender; thin; fine.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
banished from one's home or country. - noun Someone who is banished from one's home or country.
- verb To
send into exile.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb expel from a country
- noun the act of expelling a person from their native land
- noun a person who is expelled from home or country by authority
- noun a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Prophet said, _Islam began in exile and it will end in exile_. "
The Saracen: The Holy War Robert Shea 1963
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Palmer, a journalist, first learned about these witches in exile from a 2004 human rights report.
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His parents were Russian radicals in exile from the Tsarist regime.
Deals 2010
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The cheney presidency in exile is giving us a taste of what unfettered political power has to do when they attempt to defend their promotion of uncontrolled big business and profit taking during an unnecessary war of choice.
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Palmer, a journalist, first learned about these witches in exile from a 2004 human rights report.
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His parents were Russian radicals in exile from the Tsarist regime.
A Different Stripe: 2008
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The other thing you may be referring to is the conversation at the end of the book that Leary had with a hardball Swiss political operative with various intelligence connections while he was in exile from the U.S. government in Switzerland.
Boing Boing 2008
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His parents were Russian radicals in exile from the Tsarist regime.
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Andrew Wheeler, no longer in exile, is now blogging at ComicMix.
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Andrew Wheeler, no longer in exile, is now blogging at ComicMix.
July 2007 2007
oroboros commented on the word exile
Sounds like the letters X I L.
October 29, 2009
biocon commented on the word exile
exile (adjective) = scanty, poor and meager as well as slender and thin (OED and Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary).
March 21, 2016