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