Forced to leave one's home country and not allowed to return, or sent away as punishment.
From Old French 'exilier,' from Latin 'exilium' (banishment). The past tense '-ed' indicates the action has occurred.
Some of history's greatest thinkers were exiles—Karl Marx, Nabokov, and Che Guevara all produced revolutionary works while separated from their homelands, suggesting exile sharpens perspective.
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