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| Main Entry: | exile |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deport from place |
| Synonyms: | banish, displace, dispossess, eject, evacuate, expatriate, expel, extradite, ostracize, oust, outlaw, proscribe, relegate, transport, turn out, cast out, drive out, expulse |
| Antonyms: | import, take in, welcome |
| Main Entry: | exile |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deportation from a place |
| Synonyms: | banishment, diaspora, dispersion, exclusion, expulsion, migration, ostracism, scattering, separation, displacement, expatriation, extradition, proscription, relegation |
| Main Entry: | exile |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person deported from a place |
| Synonyms: | émigré, displaced person, expatriate, fugitive, outcast, outlaw, refugee, DP, deportee, expellee, nonperson, person without country |
| Main Entry: | banish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | expel from place or situation |
| Synonyms: | ban, deport, discard, discharge, dislodge, dismiss, dispel, eject, eliminate, eradicate, evict, exclude, excommunicate, exile, expatriate, get rid of, isolate, ostracize, oust, outlaw, proscribe, relegate, remove, sequester, shake off, shut out, transport, cast out, drive away, expulse, extradict, rusticate |
| Antonyms: | allow, keep, welcome |
| Main Entry: | deport |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | banish |
| Synonyms: | dismiss, displace, exile, expatriate, expel, extradite, oust, relegate, transport, cast out, expulse, ship out |
| Antonyms: | allow, permit, stay |
| Main Entry: | deportation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | banishment |
| Synonyms: | eviction, exile, expulsion, ostracism, removal, transportation, displacement, expatriation, extradition, relegation |
| Antonyms: | approval, permission |
| Main Entry: | dismissal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | release |
| Synonyms: | adjournment, banishment, bounce, cold shoulder*, deportation, deposition, discharge, dissolution, door*, end, eviction, exile, exorcism, expulsion, freedom, freeing, layoff, liberation, marching orders*, notice, ostracism, ouster, permission, pink slip*, removal, suspension, brush-off, congé, deposal, dislodgment, displacement, dispossession, expatriation, housecleaning, kiss-off, old heave-ho, relegation |
| Antonyms: | acceptance, appointment, employment, retention, welcome, hiring, maintainance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ejection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expulsion |
| Synonyms: | banishment, discharge, dismissal, elimination, eviction, exile, ouster, removal, disbarment, the boot, the heave-ho, the sack, throwing out |
| Main Entry: | emigrant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who leaves his or her native country |
| Synonyms: | émigré, alien, colonist, displaced person, exile, expatriate, fugitive, migrant, outcast, pilgrim, refugee, traveler, wanderer, wayfarer, departer, evacuee, migrator |
| Notes: | an emigrant is someone who leaves one country to settle in another while an immigrant is someone who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there |
| Antonyms: | native, nationalist |
| Main Entry: | émigré |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emigrant |
| Synonyms: | displaced person, exile, expatriate, foreigner, migrant, refugee, DP |
| Main Entry: | expatriate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person thrown out of a country |
| Synonyms: | émigré, displaced person, emigrant, exile, migrant, outcast, refugee, departer, deportee, evacuee, expellee |
| Main Entry: | expatriate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | throw out of a country |
| Synonyms: | banish, deport, displace, exile, expel, ostracize, oust, proscribe, relegate, transport, expulse |
| Antonyms: | allow, welcome |
| Main Entry: | expulsion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | banishing |
| Synonyms: | banishment, boot*, bounce, deportment, discharge, dismissal, ejection, eviction, exclusion, exile, ostracism, ouster, purge, removal, rush, suspension, debarment, dislodgment, displacement, dispossession, driving out, expatriation, extrusion, forcing out, ousting, proscription, relegation |
| Antonyms: | import, welcoming |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fugitive |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person escaping from law or other pursuer |
| Synonyms: | émigré, derelict, deserter, displaced person, escapee, exile, fly-by-night*, hermit, outcast, outlaw, recluse, refugee, runaway, stray, transient, truant, vagabond, waif, bolter, dodger, escaper, evacuee, hunted person, runagate, walkout |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | isolation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | seclusion |
| Synonyms: | concealment, confinement, desolation, detachment, exile, hiding, privacy, quarantine, retreat, segregation, solitude, withdrawal, aloneness, aloofness, beleaguerment, monkhood, privateness, reclusion, reclusiveness, remoteness, seclusiveness, sequestration |
| Main Entry: | ostracism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | banishment |
| Synonyms: | avoidance, boycott, exclusion, excommunication, exile, expulsion, isolation, rejection, blackballing, cold-shouldering, shunning |
| Main Entry: | outcast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is unwanted, not accepted |
| Synonyms: | bum*, castaway, derelict, displaced person, exile, expatriate, fugitive, gypsy, hobo*, persona non grata*, rascal, refugee, reprobate, tramp, untouchable, vagabond, vagrant, wretch, deportee |
| Antonyms: | favorite, friend, idol |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pariah |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | social outcast |
| Synonyms: | bum*, castaway, derelict, displaced person, exile, expatriate, fugitive, hobo*, leper, outsider, persona non grata*, rascal, refugee, tramp, undesirable, vagabond, vagrant, waif, deportee |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | persecute |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wrong, torment |
| Synonyms: | afflict, aggrieve, annoy, badger, bait, be on one's case, beat, bother, crucify, distress, dog*, dragoon, drive up the wall, exile, expel, harass, hector, hound*, hunt, ill-treat, injure, maltreat, martyr, molest, oppress, outrage, pester, pick on, plague, pursue, tease, torture, tyrannize, vex, victimize, worry |
| Antonyms: | comfort, commend, console, reward, soothe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | proscribe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | condemn, exclude |
| Synonyms: | ban, banish, blackball*, boycott, censure, damn, denounce, deport, doom*, embargo, excommunicate, exile, expatriate, expel, forbid, interdict, ostracize, outlaw, prohibit, reject, sentence |
| Antonyms: | admit, allow, include, praise, welcome |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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