Main Entry: di·as·po·ra

Pronunciation: \dī-ˈas-p(ə-)rə, dē-\

Function: noun

Etymology: Greek, dispersion, from diaspeirein to scatter, from dia- + speirein to sow

Date: 1881

1 capitalized a : the settling of scattered colonies of Jews outside Palestine after the Babylonian exile b : the area outside Palestine settled by Jews c : the Jews living outside Palestine or modern Israel
2 a : the movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland <the black diaspora to northern cities> b : people settled far from their ancestral homelands <African diaspora> c : the place where these people live

— di·a·spor·ic \ˌdī-ə-ˈspȯr-ik\ adjective