return from exile
Coming back home
A return from exile is the act of coming back to one's homeland after forced or voluntary banishment.
The phrase carries weight beyond mere travel—it implies restoration, often after political upheaval or regime change: The dissidents celebrated their return from exile after the revolution.
It can be used figuratively for any comeback after a period of exclusion or absence: Her return from exile in the art world was marked by a major retrospective.
- homecomingReturning to one's origin
- repatriationFormal return to homeland
- restorationReturning something to condition
- reinstatementReturn to previous position
- prodigalRashly wasteful spender
prodigal son · odyssey · long journey · wanderer · displaced · amnesty · pardon · reclaim · threshold · homeland · native land · native · belonging · reunion · warm welcome · bittersweet · stranger · changed
- Old TestamentGenesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy, Leviticus, Numbers
- Second Temple JudaismSecond Temple, Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Dead Sea Scrolls
- BibleOld Testament, New Testament, Holy Scriptures, Adam, Moses
return from exiledeportation
Legal expulsion from country
exile · banishment · expulsion · casting out · expatriation
return from exilebanishment
Forced removal from place
exile · deportation · proscription · outlawing · excommunication
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