exile

displace

verb. remove from position of responsibility

displaced person

noun. individual forced to leave his or her native country or home

emigrant

noun. person who leaves his or her native country

Word Origin & History

c.1300, from Old French essillier "exile, banish, expel, drive off," from Late Latin exilare/exsilare, from Latin exilium/exsilium "banishment, exile," from exul "banished person," from ex- "away" (see ex-) + PIE root *al- "to wander" (cf. Greek alaomai "to wander, stray, or roam about"). Second element derived in ancient times by folk etymology from Latin solum "soil." Related: Exiled; exiling.

Example Sentences forexile

The best of his works is the Olympian Zeus, made at Elis after his exile.

A vote was taken on the question of exile, and the black pebbles predominated.

For each of the fallen wishes to feel that his exile is self-terminable.

She remembered the bitterness of her month's exile, and its probable cause.

Miss Baker talked persistently about Bermuda; as if my exile had ever been a possibility!

Madame, an exile is always triste: I think of my pauvre pays.

"Very possibly, as the traitors are condemned to exile," replied Tilly.

The universe is a God in exile who has nostalgia for himself.

To children whose home is a happy one, the exile to a school must be bitter.

Ulysses was for the time in exile, but the "day of return" was not far off.

exile

deportee

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displaced person

ejection

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emigration

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