{
    "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’."
}