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Definition of Exile
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.

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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

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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