American English pronunciation
How to pronounce exiles
IPA transcription: ['ɛɡ,zaɪlz]
Pronunciation variants: ['ɛɡ,zaɪlz]['ɛk,saɪlz]
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Noun
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a person who is expelled from home or country by authority
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a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country
“American expatriates”
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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”
Verb
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expel from a country
“The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government's actions”
Usage examples
- When this fails, he exiles her to the planet's inhospitable surface, killing her.
- They are often mentioned as the "Malta exiles" in some sources.
- However, Eurymedon took no steps to prevent the massacre of the oligarchical exiles.
- The newspaper was widely read in England and Europe amongst exiles and Europeans alike.
- "Elizabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia".