exile | | |
n. (person) | 1. exile, expat, expatriate | a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country.; "American expatriates" |
| ~ absentee | one that is absent or not in residence. |
| ~ refugee | an exile who flees for safety. |
| ~ remittance man | an exile living on money sent from home. |
n. (person) | 2. deportee, exile | a person who is expelled from home or country by authority. |
| ~ alien, foreigner, noncitizen, outlander | a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country. |
n. (act) | 3. deportation, exile, expatriation, transportation | the act of expelling a person from their native land.; "men in exile dream of hope"; "his deportation to a penal colony"; "the expatriation of wealthy farmers"; "the sentence was one of transportation for life" |
| ~ banishment, proscription | rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone. |
| ~ babylonian captivity | the deportation of the Jews to Babylonia by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC. |
v. (social) | 4. deport, exile, expatriate | expel from a country.; "The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government's actions" |
| ~ expel, kick out, throw out | force to leave or move out.; "He was expelled from his native country" |
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