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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
exile
exile [exile exiles exiled exiling] noun, verb BrE [ˈeksaɪl] NAmE [ˈeksaɪl] BrE [ˈeɡzaɪl] NAmE [ˈeɡzaɪl]
noun
1. uncountable, singular the state of being sent to live in another country that is not your own, especially for political reasons or as a punishment
•to be/live in exile
•to be forced/sent into exile
•to go into exile
•a place of exile
•He returned after 40 years of exile.
2. countable a person who chooses, or is forced to live away from his or her own country
•political exiles
•a tax exile (= a rich person who moves to another country where taxes are lower)
Word Origin:
Middle English: the noun partly from Old French exil ‘banishment’ and partly from Old French exile ‘banished person’; the verb from Old French exiler; all based on Latin exilium ‘banishment’, from exul ‘banished person’.
Example Bank:
•Dante died in exile from Florence.
•He still hopes to return from exile one day.
•He went into exile after the overthrow of the government.
•Many spent decades in labour camps or in internal exile.
•She had spent 40 years in exile.
•They are in tax exile from the UK.
•They joined the many other Armenians living in exile.
•a political exile living in London
•his exile to America
•the story of the emperor's return from exile
•a tax exile
•to be/live in exile
•to go/be forced/be sent into exile
verb usually passive ~ sb (from…)
to force sb to leave their country, especially for political reasons or as a punishment; to send sb into ↑exile
•the party's exiled leaders
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Word Origin:
Middle English: the noun partly from Old French exil ‘banishment’ and partly from Old French exile ‘banished person’; the verb from Old French exiler; all based on Latin exilium ‘banishment’, from exul ‘banished person’.
Example Bank:
•He was effectively exiled after a failed bid for power.
•He was exiled for his beliefs.
•He was exiled to Siberia.
•The family was exiled from France.
•Dante, the poet, was exiled from his home in Florence.
•Exiled opposition leaders have made an appeal to the international community.
•The government decided to exile him to the colonies.
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