n. Expulsion from one's country or home by an authoritative decree, for a definite period or in perpetuity; banishment; expatriation: as, the exile of Napoleon; exile to Siberia.n. Residence in a foreign land or a remote place enforced by the government of which one has been a subject or citizen, or by stress of circumstances; separation from one's native or chosen home or country and friends; the condition of living in banishment.n. Removal.n. A banished person; a person expelled from his country or home by authority, or separated from it by necessity: as, Siberian exiles; a band of exiles.n. Synonyms Proscription, expulsion, ostracism.To banish from a country or from a particular jurisdiction by authority, with a prohibition of return, for a limited time or for life; expatriate.Hence To constrain to abandon country or home; drive to a foreign country, literally or figuratively; expel.Slender; thin; fine; light.