banishment

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[U] the punishment of being sent away from a place, especially from a country: a life of banishment in an alien country

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

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banishment