meaning of exile
1. Forced separation from ones native country; expulsion from ones home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from ones native country.
2. The person expelled from his country by authority; also, one who separates himself from his home.
3. To banish or expel from ones own country or home; to drive away.
4. Small; slender; thin; fine.
5. 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
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