exile1 nounexile2 verb
exileex‧ile1 /ˈeksaɪl, ˈeɡzaɪl/ ●○○ noun 
WORD ORIGINexile1
Origin:
1300-1400 French exil, from Latin exilium, from exul ‘person sent away’EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- Did the Lord ordain her maternal exile, or had Augustine bartered her pain for his purity?
- Euripides ended his life in exile from Athens.
- Five years of exile among strangers would soon be over.
- He was born in exile in the ex-Soviet republic of Kazahkhstan.
- He wrote Hollywood Haven in response to requests for information about where the migr s and exiles lived, worked and gathered.
- The loss to the liberation movement through gagging, imprisonment, intimidation and exile was enormous.
- The Smiths seduce us into aspiring to the same heroic pitch of failure and exile.
- These combine to turn a town of exiles into a place that nevertheless lifts one's spirit.
Longman Language Activatorto make someone leave a country
to make a foreigner leave a country because they have broken the law, or for political reasons: · The new government banned books, seized passports, expelled foreigners, and legalized detention without trial.expel from: · Two foreign diplomats were expelled form Ethiopia on March 31.
if the authorities in a country deport a foreign person or a member of a particular race who is living in that country, they force them to leave: deport to: · The man has been deported back to the Irish Republic where he will face terrorism charges.deport from: · Several football supporters were deported from Italy during the World Cup.
to officially send someone back to another country where they are believed to have committed a crime, in order to be tried in a court of law: · The drug baron was extradited to the United States from Colombia.· Spanish authorities are seeking to have the couple extradited to answer further charges.
to officially send someone back to their home country, often by force and against their will: · Italy is using military helicopters to repatriate 292 Albanian refugees.· There was to be a cease-fire, and all prisoners of war were to be repatriated.
to make someone leave their country for political reasons, for example because they oppose the government and are fighting against it: · The leader of the coup was exiled and the others imprisoned.· The Prince and his family were sent into exile after the revolution.
to send someone away permanently from their country or from the area where they live, as an official punishment: banish to: · Napoleon was banished to the island of St Helena in 1815.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs
She spent five years in self-imposed exile in Bolivia.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
1[singular, uncountable] a situation in which you are forced to leave your country and live in another country, especially for political reasonsin exile· Napoleon's wife and sons also went into exile.
· The Guatemalan writer has lived in exile in Mexico for over 40 years.
· The old leaders were removed from power and sent into exile.
· Many of his political opponents have been forced into exile.
· Hundreds of people fled into exile or were jailed.
· He never returned to his own country, but died in exile.
· Martinez returned from exile to the islands in May 1990 and was later elected president.
adjectives· The first of many refugees have finally returned home from a long exile in Senegal.
· The King threatened her with permanent exile.
(=when someone goes into exile willingly, without being forced)· He spoke to the media from his self-imposed exile in the United States.
(=when someone is forced to go into exile)· After 12 years of enforced exile abroad, Almeyda returned home to Salvador.
(=when someone is forced to move somewhere within a country)· The governor has the power to send people into internal exile in other regions.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES She spent five years in self-imposed exile in Bolivia.· Many spent decades in labour camps or in internal exile.· Thousands of priests were killed or sent into internal exile.
· Vienne marked the beginning of the papacy's long exile in Avignon.· The old forests burned as the Dark Elves took vengeance for their long exile.
· This ink blot, due to be exhibited, dates from Hugo's eighteen year-long political exile on the island of Jersey.· A general amnesty was granted allowing political exiles to return freely.
· Scarcely any aspect of life in the countries where he passes his voluntary exile has failed to incur his pessimistic censure.· Rather go into seven years' voluntary exile!· He then went into voluntary exile.· Christopher Hope grew up a Catholic in Pretoria and went into voluntary exile, aged thirty-one, in 1975.
NOUN· We need an event that will excite and shock the exile community, the whole country.· They talked about maintaining contacts in the exile community, setting up a network in the Castro government.
· Some exile groups think the parcels should not be sent.· Clinton also faced the challenge of discouraging future actions by the exile group Brothers to the Rescue, whose planes were attacked.
· Of course, what this ignores are the often huge emotional sacrifices that the individual who becomes a tax exile must make.
VERB· The occasion was the re-burial of Jovan Ducic, who died in exile in the United States in 1943.· Others may pause before the tomb of Dante, who died in exile from Florence.· The corpse has been in a freezer in Hawaii since he died there in exile in 1989.
· Opposition movements were driven into exile.
· Those who lived had a stark choice, submit, or ... flee into exile.· Tens of thousands fled into exile.· Executions resumed, and hundreds of people fled into exile or were jailed.
· Liliam was again forced into exile in 1961 after she received death threats.· But you aroused those fears only to force exile.· Tens of thousands were jailed and hideously tortured while many more were forced into exile.· Her parents' home was raided and destroyed and her family was forced into exile.
· The King went into exile in the United Kingdom.· Anne Hutchinson took her time going into exile.· He was then released, on condition he went into exile.· Many others, such as Victor Hugo, answered that question by going into exile.· Apparently they were doing a programme about monarchs who'd lost their thrones and gone into exile.· In January 1967, Sukarno offered to go into exile providing he could retain his office.· Accepted first as regent, he was in 1037 recognised as king, and Emma went into exile.
· An old man who has been living in exile returns to Prague in 1998.· His predecessor, Benazir Bhutto, is living in self-imposed exile in London.· Back in Kabul after living in exile in the United States since 1987, he wants to open a private bank.
· In 1972, it was allowed back into the region, like some disgraced aristocrat returning from exile.· In the recent elections, Bustamante, who had returned from exile, had been elected as a deputy to Congress.· Is he suggesting that Bolingbroke returns from exile simply to claim his lands?
· The investigation continued and eventually thirty-five blacks were hanged and forty-two sent into exile.· Thousands of priests were killed or sent into internal exile.· Then they send me into exile.· But shortly after taking office, a military coup sent him into exile in the United States.
a writer now living in exile He went into exile to escape political imprisonment.force/drive somebody into exile The house was raided and the family was forced into exile. He spent many years in enforced exile.voluntary/self-imposed exile She had been in voluntary exile since 1990.2[countable] someone who has been forced to live in exile: political exiles → tax exileCOLLOCATIONSverbsgo into exile· Napoleon's wife and sons also went into exile.live in exile· The Guatemalan writer has lived in exile in Mexico for over 40 years.be sent into exile· The old leaders were removed from power and sent into exile.be forced/driven into exile· Many of his political opponents have been forced into exile.flee/escape into exile· Hundreds of people fled into exile or were jailed.die in exile· He never returned to his own country, but died in exile.return from exile· Martinez returned from exile to the islands in May 1990 and was later elected president.adjectiveslong exile· The first of many refugees have finally returned home from a long exile in Senegal.permanent exile· The King threatened her with permanent exile.self-imposed/voluntary exile (=when someone goes into exile willingly, without being forced)· He spoke to the media from his self-imposed exile in the United States.enforced exile (=when someone is forced to go into exile)· After 12 years of enforced exile abroad, Almeyda returned home to Salvador.internal exile (=when someone is forced to move somewhere within a country)· The governor has the power to send people into internal exile in other regions.exile1 nounexile2 verb
exileexile2 verb [transitive] VERB TABLE
exile
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | exile |
| he, she, it | exiles | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | exiled |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have exiled |
| he, she, it | has exiled | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had exiled |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will exile |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have exiled |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am exiling |
| he, she, it | is exiling | |
| you, we, they | are exiling | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was exiling |
| you, we, they | were exiling | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been exiling |
| he, she, it | has been exiling | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been exiling |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be exiling |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been exiling |
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- But the young performers who play the exiled brothers are two of the best reasons to see this play.
- Gen Pinochet has returned to a country that has elected Ricardo Lagos as president, a man he imprisoned and exiled.
- It is about motherhood and independence and it is about having women and children in society, not exiled from it.
- My marriage has exiled me in all the ways I predicted and more.
- Quinn watched them all, anchored to his spot, as if his whole being had been exiled to his eyes.
- The disloyal Duke, who had frequently been rebellious, was exiled to the Neustrian monastery of Jumieges.
- Thousands more were exiled in labour camps on distant islands with no hope of release.
- Two months had passed since Emma had exiled Cassius with only the clothes on his back.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES She spent five years in self-imposed exile in Bolivia.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
to force someone to leave their country, especially for political reasonsbe exiled to something She spent five years in self-imposed exile in Bolivia.· At such times the exiled leader meets visitors and new refugees.· He was promptly exiled and other leaders were imprisoned.· At a press conference on the same day exiled Nahda leader Rashid Ghannouchi said that 1,500 students had been detained.
Several of the leaders were arrested and exiled to France.be exiled from something a dictator who was exiled from his home country the exiled former presidentGRAMMAR Exile is usually passive.