exile
75
5.3
- noun
- /ˈɛkˌsaɪl/
:
exilio
- Shen Tong had returned to China a month earlier, after three years in exile in the United States.
- go into exile
- return from exile
- forced into exile
So he really felt that condition of exile really keenly.
- So he really felt that condition of exile really keenly.
- That was after he was driven into exile by threats to his family and to him.
- And the guy died alone of stomach cancer in Saint Helena in exile.
- So the synagogue emerges in primitive form in the exile of a Jewish group from the Temple.
- Stalin is in eastern Siberian exile.
- In tragedy, the hero never learns the lesson of the theme and is punished with exile or death.
- Sarah Nader is the editor in chief of the Zan Times and a news source in exile run by women.
- The UN, the US, and the African Union all supported his exile in Nigeria.
Examples
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A continent from home, and with no foreseeable end to his exile, Malamud was miserable.
Academic text (2012) -
The famous writer spent years in exile due to his outspoken criticism of the government.
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You were talking about going into exile with your family.
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Widow went into exile and never made it back.
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Many of those students were from families in exile from mainland China.
Academic text (1991) -
The UN, the US, and the African Union all supported his exile in Nigeria.
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That was after he was driven into exile by threats to his family and to him.
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Through the 1920s, Prince Philip lived in exile with his parents in Paris.
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I had to accept exile from my homeworld as a result.
Fiction book (2000) -
I'm tired of wondering why it is that every day I'm on this earth I'm in exile.
Synonyms
75
5.4
Official act of sending someone out of a country because they are not allowed to stay
39
6.1
A forced removal of a person from a place or group
14
7.6
The act of forcing someone to leave a country or community as punishment
3
9.9
Sending someone away from their country as a punishment
Forcing someone to leave their home country as punishment
Antonyms
Compounds
3
7.4
A temporary group of leaders who live outside their country and plan to return to lead it
1
8.8
Living apart from others inside your own country because people reject you or to avoid harm
How Severe
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word exile for the state or act comes from the part ex- meaning 'out', the same idea as in exit. Being in exile is the condition of being sent 'out' of your country, which is why the word describes the act or state of banishment.