The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Exile \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.
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         Calling home our exiled friends abroad.  --Shak.

   Syn: See Banish.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Exile \Ex*ile"\, a. [L. exilis.]
   Small; slender; thin; fine. [Obs.] "An exile sound." --Bacon.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Exile \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.
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            Let them be recalled from their exile. --Shak.
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   2. The person expelled from his country by authority; also,
      one who separates himself from his home.
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            Thou art in exile, and thou must not stay. --Shak.

   Syn: Banishment; proscription; expulsion.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

exile
    n 1: a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country;
         "American expatriates" [syn: exile, expatriate,
         expat]
    2: a person who is expelled from home or country by authority
       [syn: exile, deportee]
    3: 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" [syn: exile, deportation,
       expatriation, transportation]
    v 1: expel from a country; "The poet was exiled because he
         signed a letter protesting the government's actions" [syn:
         expatriate, deport, exile] [ant: repatriate]

The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):

EXILE, n.  One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not
an ambassador.
    An English sea-captain being asked if he had read "The Exile of
Erin," replied:  "No, sir, but I should like to anchor on it."  Years
afterwards, when he had been hanged as a pirate after a career of
unparalleled atrocities, the following memorandum was found in the
ship's log that he had kept at the time of his reply:

    Aug. 3d, 1842.  Made a joke on the ex-Isle of Erin.  Coldly
    received.  War with the whole world!