Definition of exile

"exile" in the noun sense

1. exile, expatriate, expat

a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country

"American expatriates"

2. exile, deportee

a person who is expelled from home or country by authority

3. exile, deportation, expatriation, transportation

the act of expelling a person from their native land

"men in exile dream of hope"

"his deportation to a penal colony"

"the expatriation of wealthy farmers"

"the sentence was one of transportation for life"

"exile" in the verb sense

1. expatriate, deport, exile

expel from a country

"The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government's actions"

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Quotations for exile

What exile from himself can flee? [ Byron ]

And lo! the fullness of the time has come.
And over all the exile's western home.
From sea to sea the flowers of freedom bloom! [ Whittier ]

What exile from his country is able to escape from himself. [ Horace ]

They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home. [ Virgil ]

Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe as one city. [ Cicero ]

Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible, be daily before your eyes, but death chiefly; and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything. [ Epictetus ]

There is nothing like youth. The middle aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile, like most kings. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

exile in Scrabble®

The word exile is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters exile:

EXILE
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word exile

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exile in Words With Friends™

The word exile is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters exile:

EXILE
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The 138 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In exile

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Words within the letters of exile

2 letter words in exile (3 words)

3 letter words in exile (3 words)

4 letter words in exile (1 word)

5 letter words in exile (1 word)

exile + 1 blank (4 words)

exile + 2 blanks (5 words)

Words containing the sequence exile

Words that start with exile (3 words)

Words with exile in them (1 word)

Words that end with exile (1 word)

Word Growth involving exile

Shorter words in exile

ex

xi

Longer words containing exile

exiled

exiles