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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) Diaspora
the scattering of the Jews to countries outside of Palestine after the Babylonian captivity.

2.  Diaspora
(often l.c.) the body of Jews living in countries outside Palestine or modern Israel.

3.  Diaspora
such countries collectively.

4.  Diaspora
(l.c.) any group migration or flight from a country or region; dispersion.

5.  Diaspora
(l.c.) any group that has been dispersed outside its traditional homeland.

Etymology: (1875–80; < Gk diasporá a dispersion, n. der. of diaspeîrein to scatter. See dia -, spore)

Definition of 'diaspora'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) diaspora
the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel

2. (noun) Diaspora
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

3. (noun) diaspora
the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture)

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