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EXILE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of expelling a person from their native land

Example:

the sentence was one of transportation for life

Synonyms:

deportation; exile; expatriation; transportation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("exile" is a kind of...):

banishment; proscription (rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone)

Instance hyponyms:

Babylonian Captivity (the deportation of the Jews to Babylonia by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC)

Derivation:

exile (expel from a country)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who is expelled from home or country by authority

Synonyms:

deportee; exile

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("exile" is a kind of...):

alien; foreigner; noncitizen; outlander (a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country)

Derivation:

exile (expel from a country)

exilic (of or relating to a period of exile (especially the exile of the Jews known as the Babylonian Captivity))

Sense 3

Meaning:

A person who is voluntarily absent from home or country

Example:

American expatriates

Synonyms:

exile; expat; expatriate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("exile" is a kind of...):

absentee (one that is absent or not in residence)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exile"):

refugee (an exile who flees for safety)

remittance man (an exile living on money sent from home)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Expel from a country

Example:

The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government's actions

Synonyms:

deport; exile; expatriate

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "exile" is one way to...):

expel; kick out; throw out (force to leave or move out)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

exile (the act of expelling a person from their native land)

exile (a person who is expelled from home or country by authority)

Credits

 Context examples: 

By some papers of her father which fell into her hands she heard of the exile of her lover and learnt the name of the spot where he then resided.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

You make my exile so like a home that I forget at times that I am not in very truth back in Castile.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He bore it very patiently for six months, and when no signs of amendment appeared, he did what other paternal exiles do—tried to get a little comfort elsewhere.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

For although, since my unfortunate exile from the Houyhnhnm country, I had compelled myself to tolerate the sight of Yahoos, and to converse with Don Pedro de Mendez, yet my memory and imagination were perpetually filled with the virtues and ideas of those exalted Houyhnhnms.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Bitter and base associations have become the sole food of your memory: you wander here and there, seeking rest in exile: happiness in pleasure—I mean in heartless, sensual pleasure—such as dulls intellect and blights feeling.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He had exiled himself.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

How can you, who long for the love and sympathy of man, persevere in this exile?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“Ever the mirror of true chivalry!” exclaimed Pedro, while James of Majorca, frightened at the stern countenance of their all-powerful protector, plucked hard at the mantle of his brother exile.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And Amy, in her exile, longed eagerly to be at home, that she might work for Beth, feeling now that no service would be hard or irksome, and remembering, with regretful grief, how many neglected tasks those willing hands had done for her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Now, the Big-endian exiles have found so much credit in the emperor of Blefuscu’s court, and so much private assistance and encouragement from their party here at home, that a bloody war has been carried on between the two empires for six-and-thirty moons, with various success; during which time we have lost forty capital ships, and a much a greater number of smaller vessels, together with thirty thousand of our best seamen and soldiers; and the damage received by the enemy is reckoned to be somewhat greater than ours.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)