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exile

See also: Exile and exilé

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English exil, borrowed from Old French essil, exil, from Latin exsilium, exilium (“state of exile”), derived from exsul, exul (“exiled person”).

Pronunciation

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  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈɛɡˌzaɪl/, /ˈɛkˌsaɪl/
  • (obsolete, for the verb) IPA(key): /ɪɡˈzaɪl/[1]
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Hyphenation: ex‧ile
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Noun

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exile (countable and uncountable, plural exiles)

  1. (uncountable) The state of being banished from one's home or country.
    Synonym: banishment
    He lived in exile.
    They chose exile rather than assimilation.
    • c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:
      Let them be recalled from their exile.
    • 2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 49:
      My son, a Canada-based IT professional who often travels to Ukraine, told me about the exhilarating atmosphere on those Ukraine-bound trains, bringing home hundreds of the unwilling refugees, mostly women and children (including the babies, born in exile on the way to meet their Ukrainian fighter fathers for the first time). The difference between Ukrainian refugees and other reluctant exiles is that Ukrainians are desperate to return.
  2. (countable) Someone who is banished from his home or country.
    Synonym: expatriate
    She lived as an exile, and did her best to make the most out of such life.
    • c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
      Thou art an exile, and thou must not stay.
    • 2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 49:
      My son, a Canada-based IT professional who often travels to Ukraine, told me about the exhilarating atmosphere on those Ukraine-bound trains, bringing home hundreds of the unwilling refugees, mostly women and children (including the babies, born in exile on the way to meet their Ukrainian fighter fathers for the first time). The difference between Ukrainian refugees and other reluctant exiles is that Ukrainians are desperate to return.

Derived terms

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Translations

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Verb

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exile (third-person singular simple present exiles, present participle exiling, simple past and past participle exiled)

  1. (transitive) To send (someone or something) into exile.
    Synonyms: banish, forban, expatriate

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References

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  1. ^ Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎[1], volumes I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 6.7, page 205.

Anagrams

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French

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Verb

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exile

  1. inflection of exiler:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

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Adjective

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exīle

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of exīlis

Portuguese

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Verb

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exile

  1. inflection of exilar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

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Verb

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exile

  1. inflection of exilar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
  2. second-person singular voseo imperative of exir combined with le
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