1a. Enforced removal from one's native country. b. Self-imposed absence from one's country. 2. The condition or a period of living away from one's native country. 3. One who lives away from one's native country, whether because of expulsion or voluntary absence.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
Inflected forms: ex·iled, ex·il·ing, ex·iles To send into exile; banish. See synonyms at banish.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English exil, from Old French, from Latin exilium, from exul, exsul, exiled person, wanderer.