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English noun: banishment | |||
| 1. | banishment (state) the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent) | ||
| Samples | The association should get rid of its elderly members--not by euthanasia, of course, but by Coventry. | ||
| Synonyms | Coventry, ostracism | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | exclusion | ||
| 2. | banishment (act) rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone | ||
| Synonyms | proscription | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | rejection | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | anathematisation, anathematization, deportation, disbarment, ejection, excision, exclusion, excommunication, exile, expatriation, expulsion, relegation, riddance, rustication, transportation | ||
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