Definition of Exile

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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

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
Marcel Proust

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
Aeschylus

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

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
Don DeLillo

The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money.
Marc Wallice

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.
John Hawkes

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

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 Cabrera Infante

In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.
John Thorn

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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