exile

noun

1. (uncountable)The state of being banished from one's home or country.

   “He lived in exile.”

   “They chose exile rather than assimilation.”

   “Let them be recalled from their exile.”

   “My son, a Canada-based IT professional who often travels to Ukraine, told me about the exhilarating atmosphere on those Ukraine-bound trains, bringing home hundreds of the unwilling refugees, mostly women and children (including the babies, born in exile on the way to meet their Ukrainian fighter fathers for the first time). The difference between Ukrainian refugees and other reluctant exiles is that Ukrainians are desperate to return.”

2. (countable)Someone who is banished from his home or country.

   “She lived as an exile, and did her best to make the most out of such life.”

   “Thou art an exile, and thou must not stay.”

   “My son, a Canada-based IT professional who often travels to Ukraine, told me about the exhilarating atmosphere on those Ukraine-bound trains, bringing home hundreds of the unwilling refugees, mostly women and children (including the babies, born in exile on the way to meet their Ukrainian fighter fathers for the first time). The difference between Ukrainian refugees and other reluctant exiles is that Ukrainians are desperate to return.”

verb

1. (transitive)To send (someone or something) into exile.

   “Calling home our exiled friends abroad.”

   “She, mouldering with the dull earth's mouldering sod, / Inwrapt tenfold in slothful shame, / Lay there exiled from eternal God, / Lost to her place and name.”