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exile Definition

ex·ile (ek′sīl′, eg′zīl′)

noun

  1. a prolonged living away from one's country, community, etc., usually enforced; banishment, sometimes self-imposed
  2. a person in exile
  3. the span of time in exile

Etymology: ME & OFr exil < L exilium < exul, an exile, one banished < ex-, out + IE base *al-, to wander aimlessly > Gr alaomai, I wander, am banished

transitive verb -·iled′, -·il′·ing

to force (someone) to leave his or her own country, community, etc.; banish

exile Idioms

in exile

  1. banished
  2. taking refuge a government in exile

the Exile

the period in the 6th cent. during which the Jews were held captive in Babylonia

exile Synonyms

exile

n.

  1. Banishment

    expulsion, deportation, expatriation, ostracism, displacement, transportation, proscription, separation; see also emigration.

  2. An outcast

    expatriate, stateless person, deportee; see emigrant, fugitive, refugee.

exile Synonyms

exile

v.

ostracize, banish, expatriate, cast out; see banish 1. See syn. study at banish.

exile Usage Examples

Object

  • royalist: During their years in Europe many exiled royalists acquired a taste for the buildings of Holland and France.
  • monarch: In the Second World War, London was home to the exiled monarchs of many occupied countries.
  • journalist: At the party is Philip Kaufman, a Pulitzer prize winning journalist exiled from the US in the McCarthy witchhunts.
  • revolutionary: Marx and Engels, along with many other exiled revolutionaries, decided to return to Germany once the revolution had broken out.
  • leader: In Zambia he moved in with his uncle, one of the exiled leaders of the South African freedom struggle.

Converse of object

  • enforce: Even worse was that we were expected to believe that his enforced exile would be English cricket's loss.
  • prefer: As Thomas Walker pointed out, the leaders of the Manchester Constitutional Society " preferred a voluntary exile to imprisonment.

Adjective modifier

  • self-imposed: He led Russia from its self-imposed exile to become one of the strongest national sides in Europe.
  • Cuban: Two days later five merchant ships carrying 1,400 Cuban exiles arrived at the Bay of Pigs.
  • Iraqi: I know, having spoken to many Iraqi exiles, of their wish to return home.
  • Chilean: The award was given to a representative group of those who had worked in solidarity with Chilean exiles in the UK.
  • Protestant: These were Protestant exiles in the 17th century from the land that became Northern Ireland in the 20th century.

Preposition: on

  • continent: James and Mary went into exile on the continent and had a daughter, Louise.

Noun used with modifier

  • tax: But while the tax exile may be welcome, the real wealth creators of Britain have suffered.

Preposition: in

    exile Quotes

    Take up the White Man's burdenö Send forth the best ye breedö Go, bind your sons to exile To serve your captives'need.

    —Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

    Dilexi iustitiam et odi iniquitatem, propterea morior in exilio. I have loved righteousness and hated iniquity, and therefore I die in exile.

    —Pope Gregory VII also known as Hildebrand

    What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them. Their first practical leader is an Irish-American.

    —Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills

    Arma virumque cano,Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque venit Litora. Thisis a tale of arms and of a man.Fated to be an exile, he wasthe first tosail fromtheland of Troyand reach Italy, at its Lavinian shore.

    —Virgil full name Publius Vergilius Maro

    There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping silent.When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it, orevensuspectedanything† Whoeverrefuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection† Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

    —Weizsa«  cker, Richard Freiherr, Baron von

    England is a great and powerful nation, foremost in human progress, enemy to despotism, the only safe refuge for the exile, friend of the oppressed. If ever England should be so circumstanced as to require the help of anyally, cursed be the Italian who would not step forward with me in her defence.

    —Garibaldi, Giuseppe

    Delicatus ille est adhuc cui patria dulcis est. Fortis autem jam cui omne solum patria est, perfectus vero cui mundus totus exsilium est. He whose own homeland is sweet to him is a mere beginner. He to whom every soil is as his native land is strong. But he to whom the whole world is a place of exile has achieved perfection.

    —Hugh of St Victor