Definitions for exiles

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exiles ex·ile

Spelling: [eg-zahyl, ek-sahyl]

IPA: /ˈɛg zaɪl, ˈɛk saɪl/

Exiles is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in exiles (eeilsx).

Definitions for exiles

noun

1. expulsion from one's native land by authoritative decree.
2. the fact or state of such expulsion:
3. a person banished from his or her native land.
4. prolonged separation from one's country or home, as by force of circumstances:
5. anyone separated from his or her country or home voluntarily or by force of circumstances.
6. the Exile, the Babylonian captivity of the Jews, 597–538 b.c.

verb (used with object)

1. to expel or banish (a person) from his or her country; expatriate.
2. to separate from country, home, etc.:

Origin of exiles

1250-1300; Middle English exil banishment Latin ex(s)ilium, equivalent to exsul banished person + -ium -ium

Examples for exiles

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

Iran has the highest number of women journalists in prison, and hundreds of Iranian journalists are forced to live in exile.

Both the Republicans in Congress and the American-Cuban community in exile have been speaking out against the warming relations.

From here I have the chance to blog in Arabic and in English as “Proud Atheist,” but I am now effectively in exile.

A twinned, imagined narrative of a fictitious Fidel Castro and a Miami exile intent on assassinating him.

He was eventually allowed to leave, but he was forced to resign as ambassador and now lives in Washington, effectively in exile.

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

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

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

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