exile
/ˈeksaɪl/, /ˈegzaɪl/ nounDefinition
SITUATION [U] › when someone has to leave their home and live in another country, often for political reasons: He spent the war years in exile in New York. The King was forced into exile.
PERSON [C] › someone who is forced to live in another country: She lived the rest of her life as an exile in the UK.
exile verb [T] › to force someone to leave their home and live in another country, often for political reasons exiled adjective (Definition of exile noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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