exile

Nouns

  • (n) a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country
    • American expatriates
    expat, expatriate,
  • (n) a person who is expelled from home or country by authority deportee,
  • (n) the act of expelling a person from their native land
    • men in exile dream of hope
    • his deportation to a penal colony
    • the expatriation of wealthy farmers
    • the sentence was one of transportation for life
    deportation, expatriation, transportation,

Verbs

  • (v) expel from a country
    • The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government's actions
    expatriate, deport,

Synonyms

expatriate deport expat deportee deportation expatriation transportation

Antonyms

repatriate

Words of close approximity

exit
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