exile
Definition
- n. a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country
- n. a person who is expelled from home or country by authority
- n. the act of expelling a person from their native land
Word forms
- Past participle
- exiled
- Present participle
- exiling
- Past tense
- exiled
- Third person singular
- exiles
Example sentences
n.
The exile returned to his homeland after many years of living in a foreign country.
vt.
The government decided to exile the leader who had opposed their rule.