American English pronunciation

How to pronounce exiles

IPA transcription: ['ɛɡ,zaɪlz]

Pronunciation variants: ['ɛɡ,zaɪlz]['ɛk,saɪlz]

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Noun

  • a person who is expelled from home or country by authority

  • a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country

    “American expatriates”

  • 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

  • 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".