exile

exile is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, transitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. The person expelled from his country by authority; also, one who separates himself from his home.
3. transitive verb. To banish or expel from one's own country or home; to drive away.
4. adjective. Small; slender; thin; fine.
5. noun. the act of expelling a person from their native land

   "men in exile dream of hope"

   "his deportation to a penal colony"

   Synonyms: deportation, expatriation, transportation

6. noun. a person who is expelled from home or country by authority

   Synonyms: deportee

7. noun. a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country

   "American expatriates"

   Synonyms: expat, expatriate

8. verb. expel from a country

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

   Synonyms: deport, expatriate

Synonyms

deportation, expatriation, transportation, deportee, expat, expatriate, deport

Common word forms

exiled, exiler, exiles, exiling, exilement

Words from these letters

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