Definition of exile Exile
/ɛˈgzajˌl/ - [egzayl] - ex•ile
We found 17 definitions of exile from 7 different sources.
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What does exile mean?
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NounPlural: exiles |
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| 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" | ||
| deportation, expatriation, transportation | ||
| banishment, proscription rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone | ||
| exile - a person who is expelled from home or country by authority | ||
| deportee | ||
| noncitizen, outlander, foreigner, alien a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country | ||
| exile - a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country; "American expatriates" | ||
| expatriate, expat | ||
| absentee one that is absent or not in residence | ||
| britain, u.k., uk, united kingdom, united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, great britain a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom | ||
| refugee an exile who flees for safety | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- exile (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. - exile (n.)
The person expelled from his country by authority; also, one who separates himself from his home. - exile (v. t.)
To banish or expel from one's own country or home; to drive away. - exile (a.)
Small; slender; thin; fine.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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exile
A person banished from his or her native land. -
exile
To send into exile. -
exile
The act of expelling a person from his native land.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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exile
eks′īl, or egz′īl, 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. [O. Fr. exil—L. exsilium, banishment—ex, out of, and root of salīre, to leap.]
Wikipedia 
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Exile means being sent away from the country or area where you live. People are usually exiled for political reasons or sometimes because they have committed a crime. They may have said bad things about the rulers in that country or tried to get into power themselves. People are not exiled in democratic countries, but many famous people in history have been sent into exile.
Exile may mean that someone is sent out of the country, but sometimes they are sent to another part of the country (this is called "internal exile"). Sometimes people have made their own decision to leave their country as a protest against the way it was being ruled. This is called "self-imposed exile".
In the Old Testament the Jews were exiled to Babylon. In Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome people were often sent into exile. For several centuries Russia (in the 20th century the Soviet Union) sent many people into exile, often to labour camps in Siberia. Thousands of people from Europe including many famous people went to the United States when the Nazis came to power in Germany in the 1930s.
One famous person who was sent into exile was Napoléon Bonaparte who was exiled from France, first to Elba and then to St Helena.
The cellist Pablo Casals went into self-imposed exile as a protest against the government of Spain. He said he would not come back until Spain was a democracy. -
Japanese band
EXILE (エグザイル, Eguzairu?) is a 7-member Japanese pop music band.The perfoemers of this group are Hiro, Makidai, Matsu, Usa and Akira. The vocalists of this group are Atsushi and Takahiro.
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Exile is a Japanese band. This group is made up of 7 members. This group is popular in Japan.
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