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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
exile
 
SYLLABICATION:ex·ile
PRONUNCIATION:  gzl, ksl
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·ilic (g-zlk, k-sl-) , ex·ilian (g-zlyn, -zl-n, k-slyn, -sl-n) —ADJECTIVE
 
 
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