diaspora
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About Our Definitions: All forms of a word (noun, verb, etc.) are now displayed on one page.di·as·po·ra
noun \dī-ˈas-p(ə-)rə, dē-\Definition of DIASPORA
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
See Origin of DIASPORA
Greek, dispersion, from diaspeirein to scatter, from dia- + speirein to sow
First Known Use: 1881
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