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Diaspora
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Diaspora has 3 senses
- diaspora(n = noun.group) - the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel; is a kind of body
- diaspora(n = noun.event) - the dispersion of the Jews outside Israel; from the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 587-86 BC when they were exiled to Babylonia up to the present time; is a kind of dispersion, scattering
- diaspora(n = noun.attribute) - the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture); is a kind of dispersion, distribution
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Diaspora, n.
1 (prec. by the) a the dispersion of the Jews among the Gentiles mainly in the 8th-6th c. BC. b Jews dispersed in this way.
2 (also diaspora) a any group of people similarly dispersed. b their dispersion.
1 (prec. by the) a the dispersion of the Jews among the Gentiles mainly in the 8th-6th c. BC. b Jews dispersed in this way.
2 (also diaspora) a any group of people similarly dispersed. b their dispersion.
Etymology
Gk f. diaspeiro (as DIA-, speiro scatter)
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