| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ex·ile |
| PRONUNCIATION: | g z l , k s l |
| NOUN: | 1a. Enforced removal from one's native country. b. Self-imposed absence from one's country. 2. The condition or a period of living away from one's native country. 3. One who lives away from one's native country, whether because of expulsion or voluntary absence. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: ex·iled, ex·il·ing, ex·iles To send into exile; banish. See synonyms at banish. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English exil, from Old French, from Latin exilium, from exul, exsul, exiled person, wanderer. | | OTHER FORMS: | ex·il ic ( g-z l k, k-s l -) , ex·il ian ( g-z l y n, -z l - n, k-s l y n, -s l - n) ADJECTIVE
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