exile
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (1)exiles, exiled, exiling
- expel from a country“The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government's actions”Synonyms: expatriatedeportOpposite repatriateMore general expel, throw out
Noun (3)exiles
- a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country“American expatriates”Synonyms: expatriateexpatType of absenteeKinds refugee, remittance person
- a person who is expelled from home or country by authoritySynonyms: deporteeType of foreigner, alien
- 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”Synonyms: deportationexpatriationtransportationType of banishment, proscriptionExamples Babylonian Captivity
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Translations
Noun banishment from one's country
- Spanish
- exilio
- French
- exil
- German
- Exil
- Italian
- esilio
- Portuguese
- exílio
- Turkish
- sürgün
- Russian
- изгна́ние izgnánije
- Arabic
- نَفْي nafy
- Chinese
- 流亡 liúwáng
- Japanese
- 追放 tsuihō
23 more languages
- Dutch
- ballingschap
- Polish
- wygnanie
- Swedish
- exil
- Greek
- εξορία exoría
- Korean
- 망명 mangmyeong
- Indonesian
- pengasingan
- Vietnamese
- lưu vong
- Hungarian
- száműzetés
- Portuguese (PT)
- exílio
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 流亡 liúwáng
- Albanian
- mërgim
- Catalan
- exili
- Czech
- exil
- Danish
- eksil
- Finnish
- maanpako
- Hebrew
- גָּלוּת galút
- Icelandic
- útlegð
- Kurdish
- sirgûn
- Norwegian
- eksil
- Romanian
- exil
- Serbo-Croatian
- progonstvo
- Slovak
- exil
- Welsh
- alltudiaeth
Noun exiled person
- Spanish
- exiliado
- French
- exilé
- German
- Exilant
- Italian
- esule
- Portuguese
- exilado
- Turkish
- sürgün
- Russian
- изгна́нник izgnánnik
- Dutch
- banneling
- Polish
- wygnaniec
- Swedish
- landsflykting
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: 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.— William Shakespeare
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.— William Shakespeare
Synonyms: Banishment; proscription; expulsion.
To banish or expel from one's own country or home; to drive away. “Exiled from eternal God.” Alfred Tennyson
Calling home our exiled friends abroad.— William Shakespeare
Synonyms: See Banish.
Origin: L. exilis.
Small; slender; thin; fine. obsolete “An exile sound.” Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
The Devil's Dictionary
Aug. 3d, 1842. Made a joke on the ex-Isle of Erin. Coldly received. War with the whole world!