Associations to the word «Exile»

Wiktionary

EXILE, noun. The state of being banished from one's home or country.
EXILE, noun. Someone who is banished from one's home or country.
EXILE, verb. (transitive) To send into exile.

Dictionary definition

EXILE, noun. A person who is voluntarily absent from home or country; "American expatriates".
EXILE, noun. A person who is expelled from home or country by authority.
EXILE, noun. 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".
EXILE, verb. Expel from a country; "The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government's actions".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin