# exile

Pronunciation: say "EG-zyl" /ˈɛɡˌzaɪl/

## Noun

1. The condition of being banished from one's home or country.
   - Simple: Being forced to live away from your home or country, often as a punishment.
   - _The poet spent two decades in exile after criticizing the ruling regime._
   - _Exile from her homeland weighed heavily on the aging writer._
2. A person who has been banished from their home or country.
   - Simple: A person who has been forced to leave their home country and cannot return.
   - _The political exile published essays attacking the government from abroad._
   - _A group of exiles built a tight-knit community in the border town._

## Verb

3. To send someone or something into banishment from their home or country.
   - Simple: To force someone to leave their home country, usually as a punishment.
   - _The new regime moved to exile anyone who openly opposed its rule._
   - _The emperor exiled the disgraced general to a distant province._

## Origin

This word comes from Middle English 'exil', borrowed from Old French 'essil' or 'exil', from Latin 'exsilium' ('state of exile'), which derived from 'exsul', meaning an exiled person.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/exile (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).