what does banishment mean?
BANISHMENT as NOUN
- Meaning
- rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone
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Hypernyms(s) banishment is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- Meaning
- the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)
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- the association should get rid of its elderly members–not by euthanasia, of course, but by Coventry
Hypernyms(s) banishment is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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