EXILE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exile mean? 

• EXILE (noun)
  The noun EXILE has 3 senses:

1. a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country

2. a person who is 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)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is voluntarily absent from home or country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

exile; expat; expatriate

Context example:

American expatriates

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who is 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)

Derivation:

exile (expel from a country)

exilic (of or relating to a period of exile (especially the exile of the Jews known as the Babylonian Captivity))

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of expelling a person from their native land

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

deportation; exile; expatriation; transportation

Context example:

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)

Derivation:

exile (expel from a country)

• EXILE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they exile    ... he / she / it exiles   
Past simple: exiled   
Past participle: exiled   
-ing form: exiling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Expel from a country

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

deport; exile; expatriate

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

Derivation:

exile (the act of expelling a person from their native land)

exile (a person who is expelled from home or country by authority)

 Context examples 

I am poor and an exile, but it will afford me true pleasure to be in any way serviceable to a human creature.’

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The Icelandic Sagas tell of Erik the Red: exiled for murder in the late 10th century he fled to southwest Greenland, establishing its first Norse settlement.

(Lost Norse of Greenland fuelled the medieval ivory trade, ancient walrus DNA suggests, University of Cambridge)

“Good!” he exclaimed, and left the table at once to go on deck and into the steerage, where the hunters were taking the first breakfast of their exile.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence for ever.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They are cavaliers of Spain who have followed him in his exile.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He felt like a prince returned from exile, and his lonely heart burgeoned in the geniality in which it bathed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She felt her exile deeply, and for the first time in her life, realized how much she was beloved and petted at home.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

These civil commotions were constantly fomented by the monarchs of Blefuscu; and when they were quelled, the exiles always fled for refuge to that empire.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Founded by Erik the Red around 985AD after his exile from Iceland (or so the Sagas tell us), Norse communities in Greenland thrived for centuries – even gaining a bishop – before vanishing in the 1400s, leaving only ruins.

(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)

In her present exile from good society, and distance from everything that had been wont to interest her, a letter from one belonging to the set where her heart lived, written with affection, and some degree of elegance, was thoroughly acceptable.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)