| 释义 |
ban·ish·ment
\-mənt\ noun
(-s)
1.
a. : a legal expulsion from a country
< in 1940 his sentence was changed to banishment — Current Biography >
b. : exclusion or dismissal, self-imposed or prescribed by some authority, especially from a particular area, group, or class
< his banishment from amateur sports >
< banishment from good society >
2. : a casting off : discarding
< the banishment of the textbook from the classroom — Theodore Collier > |