exile :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

n. expelled from home or country by authority

n. voluntarily absent from home or country

n. 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"

expatriate, deport

v. expel from a country; "The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government's actions"

runaway, fugitive

n. someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice

castaway, outcast, pariah

n. a person who is rejected (from society or home)

pilgrim, palmer

n. someone who journeys in foreign lands

emigrant, emigre, outgoer, émigré

n. someone who leaves one country to settle in another

immigrant

n. a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there

settler, colonist

n. a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country

untouchable

n. belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India

ostracism

n. the act of excluding someone from society by general consent

rejection

n. the act of rejecting something; "his proposals were met with rejection"

bar, relegate, banish

v. expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his own country"

turn out, expel, eject, exclude, throw out, boot out, kick out, turf out, chuck out

v. put out or expel from a place; "The child was expelled from the classroom"

force out, evict

v. expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process; "The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months"

citizen

n. a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community

repatriate, allow back

v. admit back into the country

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