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Noun exile has 3 senses
- exile, expatriate - voluntarily absent from home or country
--1 is a kind of absentee
--1 has particulars: refugee; remittance man
- exile, deportee - expelled from home or country by authority
--2 is a kind of foreigner, alien, noncitizen, outlander
- exile, deportation, expatriation, transportation - 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"
--3 is a kind of banishment, proscription
--3 has particulars: Babylonian Captivity
Verb exile has 1 sense
- expatriate, deport, exile - expel from a country; "The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government's actions"
--1 is one way to expel, throw out, kick out
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