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{
"term": "exile",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "the state of being sent to live in another country that is not your own, especially for political reasons or as a punishment",
"sensetop": "in exileinto exilein exile from…",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a place of exile"
},
{
"text": "He returned after 40 years of exile."
},
{
"text": "She has lived in exile since 1989.",
"contextForm": "in exile"
},
{
"text": "The whole family went into exile.",
"contextForm": "into exile"
},
{
"text": "to be forced/sent into exile"
},
{
"text": "Dante died in exile from Florence.",
"contextForm": "in exile from…"
},
{
"text": "He still hopes to return from exile one day."
},
{
"text": "He went into exile after the overthrow of the government."
},
{
"text": "They are in tax exile from the UK."
}
],
"topics": ["Crime and punishment", "Politics"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["long", "permanent", "enforced"],
"verb + exile": ["be driven into", "be forced into", "be sent into"],
"preposition": ["in exile", "exile from", "exile to"],
"phrases": ["a place of exile", "somebody’s return from exile"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a person who chooses, or is forced, to live away from his or her own country",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "political exiles"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["political", "tax", "returning"],
"exile + verb": ["live", "return"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈeksaɪl//ˈeɡzaɪl/",
"audio": "ex/exile/exile__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈeksaɪl//ˈeɡzaɪl/",
"audio": "ex/exile/exile__us_1_rr.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: the noun partly from Old French exil ‘banishment’ and partly from Old French exile ‘banished person’; the verb from Old French exiler; all based on Latin exilium ‘banishment’, from exul ‘banished person’."
}