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