exile

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    –noun
  1. Enforced removal from one's native country.
  2. Self-imposed absence from one's country.
  3. The condition or a period of living away from one's native country.
  4. One who lives away from one's native country, whether because of expulsion or voluntary absence.
  5. –transitive verb
  6. To send into exile; banish. See Synonyms at banish.

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/ (ĕgˈzīlˌ, ĕkˈsīlˌ)/
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  1. Middle English exil, from Old French, from Latin exilium, from exul, exsul, exiled person, wanderer.

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