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exile

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ex·ile  (gzl, ksl)
n.
1.
a. Enforced removal from one's native country.
b. Self-imposed absence from one's country.
2. The condition or a period of living away from one's native country.
3. One who lives away from one's native country, whether because of expulsion or voluntary absence.
tr.v. ex·iled, ex·il·ing, ex·iles
To send into exile; banish. See Synonyms at banish.

[Middle English exil, from Old French, from Latin exilium, from exul, exsul, exiled person, wanderer.]

ex·ilic (g-zlk, k-sl-), ex·ilian (g-zlyn, -zl-n, k-slyn, -sl-n) adj.

exile
Noun
1. a prolonged, usually enforced absence from one's country
2. a person banished or living away from his or her country
Verb
[-iling, -iled]
to expel (someone) from his or her country; banish [Latin exsilium]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.exileexile - a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country; "American expatriates"
absentee - one that is absent or not in residence
refugee - an exile who flees for safety
remittance man - an exile living on money sent from home
2.exileexile - a person who is expelled from home or country by authority
alien, foreigner, noncitizen, outlander - a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
3.exile - 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"
banishment, proscription - rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone
Verb1.exile - expel from a country; "The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government's actions"
expel, kick out, throw out - force to leave or move out; "He was expelled from his native country"

exile
Translations
Spanish exile [ˈɛksaɪl] nexilio;
(person) → exiliado/a

French exile [ˈɛksaɪl] nexil m (= person); exilé(e)
vtexiler;
in exile → en exil

German exile [ˈɛksaɪl] nExil nt;
(person) → Verbannte(r) f(m)
vtverbannen;
in exile → im Exil

Italian exile [ˈɛksaɪl] nesilio;
(person) → esiliato/a
vtesiliare;
in exile → in esilio

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Tu Fu in `The Old Man of Shao-Ling' leaves us this memory of his peaceful days passed in the capital, before the ambition of the Turkic general An Lu-shan had driven his master into exile in far Ssuch`uan.
Even in the course of the trial he might have proposed exile as the penalty, but then he declared that he preferred death to exile.
The wars, the guillotine and exile had reduced it to two, one of which was despotic in her government, so far as theory was concerned at least; possibly, at times, a little so in practice.
 
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