exile
Pluralexiles (some meanings)
Pluralexiles (some meanings)
- 1Being forced to live away from your home or country, often as a punishment.
Like being locked out of your own house and not allowed back in.
After the war, the former king lived in exile for many years.
Years of exile left her longing for the streets where she grew up.
Similarbanishment
Oppositerepatriation
- 2A person who has been forced to leave their home country and cannot return.
Like someone who has been told they can never come back home.
The exile dreamed of one day returning to the village where she was born.
Many exiles settled in the coastal city after fleeing the war.
Similarexpatriate
- 3To force someone to leave their home country, usually as a punishment.
Like forcing someone to move far away and never letting them come back.
The government decided to exile the rebel leader.
They exiled him to a remote island far from the capital.
Similarbanish, expatriate
Oppositerepatriate
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Origin
It comes from Latin, where a related word meant an exiled person and 'exsilium' meant the state of exile. It reached English through Old French.