Definition of diaspora
1
capitalized Judaism
a
:the settling of scattered colonies of Jews outside ancient Palestine after the Babylonian exile
b
:the area outside ancient Palestine settled by Jews
c
:the Jews living outside Palestine or modern Israel
- members of the diaspora
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
- members of the African diaspora
c
:the place where these people live
