Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - exile

(exiles, exiling, exiled) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If someone is living in exile, they are living in a foreign country because they cannot live in their own country, usually for political reasons. He is now living in exile in Egypt... He returned from exile earlier this year. ...after nearly six years of exile... During his exile, he also began writing books. N-UNCOUNT: usu prep N 2. If someone is exiled, they are living in a foreign country because they cannot live in their own country, usually for political reasons. His second wife, Hilary, had been widowed, then exiled from South Africa... They threatened to exile her in southern Spain. ...Haiti’s exiled president. VERB: be V-ed from n, V n, V-ed 3. An exile is someone who has been exiled. N-COUNT 4. If you say that someone has been exiled from a particular place or situation, you mean that they have been sent away from it or removed from it against their will. He has been exiled from the first team and forced to play in third team matches... = banish VERB: usu passive, be V-ed from n • Exile is also a noun. Rovers lost 4-1 and began their long exile from the First Division. N-UNCOUNT: oft N from n