What does exile mean?
Exile means (uncountable) The state of being banished from one's home or country..
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/ˈɛɡˌzaɪl/ · noun
(uncountable) The state of being banished from one's home or country..
He lived in exile.
They chose exile rather than assimilation.
Let them be recalled from their exile.
My son, a Canada-based IT professional who often travels to Ukraine, told me about the exhilarating atmosphere on those Ukraine-bound trains, bringing home hundreds of the unwilling refugees, mostly women and children (including the babies, born in exile on the way to meet their Ukrainian fighter fathers for the first time). The difference between Ukrainian refugees and other reluctant exiles is that Ukrainians are desperate to return.
She lived as an exile, and did her best to make the most out of such life.
Thou art an exile, and thou must not stay.
Calling home our exiled friends abroad.
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.
Use exile when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Exile means (uncountable) The state of being banished from one's home or country..
Common synonyms include banishment, expatriate, émigré, banish.
Possible antonyms include repatriate.
He lived in exile.
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