Exile
['eksaɪl;'egz-] or ['ɛksaɪl]
Definition
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) a person who is expelled from home or country by authority.
(noun.) a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country; 'American expatriates'.
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Definition
(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.
(n.) The person expelled from his country by authority; also, one who separates himself from his home.
(v. t.) To banish or expel from one's own country or home; to drive away.
(a.) Small; slender; thin; fine.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Banishment, expatriation, ostracism, proscription, expulsion (from one's country).[2]. Banished person.
v. a. Banish, expatriate, ostracize, proscribe, expel (from one's country).
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See BANISHMENT]
SYN:Banish, relegate
ANT:Welcome, reinstate, domesticate, domiciliate
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Definition
n. state of being sent out of one's native country: expulsion from home: banishment: one away from his native country.—v.t. to expel from one's native country to banish.—n. Ex′īlement banishment.—adj. Exil′ic pertaining to exile esp. that of the Jews in Babylon.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
For a woman to dream that she is exiled, denotes that she will have to make a journey which will interfere with some engagement or pleasure. See Banishment.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. One who serves his country by residing abroad yet is not an ambassador.
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Examples
- It was as if they met in exile, and united their solitary forces against all the world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And yet, that is hardly to be reconciled either with my other idea that he may be a political exile. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I will seek him out, said Isaac, for he is a good youth, and hath compassion for the exile of Jacob. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It seemed as if Misfortune was never tired of worrying into motion that unwieldy exile. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She had risen, and stood before him in a kind of clouded majesty, like some deposed princess moving tranquilly to exile. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- For if he will not yield to opinion, there follows the gentle compulsion of exile or death. Plato. The Republic.
- From that self-imposed exile I came back, as I had hoped, prayed, believed I should come back--a changed man. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Exiles notoriously feed much on hopes, and are unlikely to stay in banishment unless they are obliged. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They recalled their exiles and prepared for resistance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- When the house has been swept and garnished, they dress up the exiled vices, and, crowning them with garlands, bring them back under new names. Plato. The Republic.
- So did a heap of nuts, long, long exiled from Barcelona, and yet speaking English so indifferently as to call fourteen of themselves a pint. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He would have exiled fifty Madame de Sta?ls, if, they had annoyed, offended, outrivalled, or opposed him. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Everything, therefore, contributed to set the exiled Jews inquiring into their own history, and they found an inspiring leader in the prophet Ezekiel. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She grieved for the loss of Raymond with an anguish, that exiled all smile from her lips, and trenched sad lines on her brow of beauty. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It was the aurora borealis of the frozen pole exiled to a summer land! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The destitute condition, and highly wrought feelings of his friend prevented him from adverting to the possibility of exiling himself from her. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Editor: Samantha