exile

From Middle English exil, borrowed from Old French essil, exil, from Latin exsilium, exilium (“state of exile”), derived from exsul, exul (“exiled person”).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛɡˌzaɪl/, /ˈɛkˌsaɪl/
• (obsolete, for the verb) IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzaɪl/[1]

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exile (countable and uncountable, plural exiles)

1. (uncountable) The state of being banished from one's home or country.

   Synonym: banishment

   He lived in exile.

   They chose exile rather than assimilation.

   • c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:

     Let them be recalled from their exile.

2. (countable) Someone who is banished from his home or country.

   Synonym: expatriate

   She lived as an exile, and did her best to make the most out of such life.

   • c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

     Thou art an exile, and thou must not stay.

exile (third-person singular simple present exiles, present participle exiling, simple past and past participle exiled)

1. (transitive) To send (someone or something) into exile.

   Synonyms: banish, forban, expatriate

   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene viii]:

     Calling home our exiled friends abroad.

   • 1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Palace of Art”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza LXVIII, page 87:

     She, mouldering with the dull earth's mouldering sod, / Inwrapt tenfold in slothful shame, / Lay there exiled from eternal God, / Lost to her place and name.

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exile

1. inflection of exiler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

exīle

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of exīlis

exile

1. inflection of exilar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

exile

1. inflection of exilar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative
2. second-person singular voseo imperative of exir combined with le