exile

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Slender; thin; fine; light.
2. To banish from a country or from a particular jurisdiction by authority, with a prohibition of return, for a limited time or for life; expatriate.
3. Hence To constrain to abandon country or home; drive to a foreign country, literally or figuratively; expel.
4. n. Expulsion from one's country or home by an authoritative decree, for a definite period or in perpetuity; banishment; expatriation: as, the exile of Napoleon; exile to Siberia.
5. n. Residence in a foreign land or a remote place enforced by the government of which one has been a subject or citizen, or by stress of circumstances; separation from one's native or chosen home or country and friends; the condition of living in banishment.
6. n. Removal.
7. n. A banished person; a person expelled from his country or home by authority, or separated from it by necessity: as, Siberian exiles; a band of exiles.
8. n. Synonyms Proscription, expulsion, ostracism.

Wiktionary

1. v. To send into exile.
2. n. The state of being banished from one's home or country.
3. n. Someone who is banished from one's home or country.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Small; slender; thin; fine.
2. v. To banish or expel from one's own country or home; to drive away.
3. n. Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's native country.
4. n. The person expelled from his country by authority; also, one who separates himself from his home.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. expel from a country
2. n. the act of expelling a person from their native land
3. n. a person who is expelled from home or country by authority
4. n. a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country