EXILE
Dictionary entry overview: What does exile mean?
• EXILE (noun)
The noun EXILE has 3 senses:
1. voluntarily absent from home or country
2. expelled from home or country by authority
3. the act of expelling a person from their native land
Familiarity information: EXILE used as a noun is uncommon.
• EXILE (verb)
The verb EXILE has 1 sense:
1. expel from a country
Familiarity information: EXILE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• EXILE (noun)
Meaning:
Voluntarily absent from home or country
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
exile; expatriate
Hypernyms ("exile" is a kind of...):
absentee (one that is absent or not in residence)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exile"):
refugee (an exile who flees for safety)
remittance man (an exile living on money sent from home)
Meaning:
Expelled from home or country by authority
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
deportee; exile
Hypernyms ("exile" is a kind of...):
alien; foreigner; noncitizen; outlander (a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country)
Meaning:
The act of expelling a person from their native land
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
deportation; expatriation; exile; transportation
Context examples:
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
Hypernyms ("exile" is a kind of...):
banishment; proscription (rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone)
Instance hyponyms:
Babylonian Captivity (the deportation of the Jews to Babylonia by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC)
• EXILE (verb)
Meaning:
Expel from a country
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
exile; expatriate; deport
Context example:
The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government's actions
Hypernyms (to "exile" is one way to...):
expel; kick out; throw out (force to leave or move out)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
