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Definition of Exile |
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Exile
Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's native country. The person expelled from his country by authority; also, one who separates himself from his home. To banish or expel from one's own country or home; to drive away. Small; slender; thin; fine. Related Definitions: Also, Authority, Away, Banish, Banishment, By, Civil, Country, Drive, Expel, Expelled, Expulsion, Fine, Forced, From, Himself, His, Home, Native, One, Or, Own, Person, Separation, Slender, Small, Sometimes, The, Thin, To, Voluntary, Who |
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Exile Quotations
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans. Charlotte Perkins Gilman I know how men in exile feed on dreams. Aeschylus Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer. Guillermo C. Infante Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. Willa Cather I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile. Tahar Ben Jelloun |
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Exile Translations
exile in Danish is eksil exile in Dutch is verbannen, uitbannen exile in French is exiler, exilent, exilons, exil, exilez, proscrit exile in German is Exil exile in Italian is esule exile in Latin is exsilium exile in Norwegian is landflyktighet, landsforvisning, eksil exile in Spanish is exilio, destierro |
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