diaspora

Definition of Diaspora in English :

Noun

1. diaspora

the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel

2. 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. diaspora

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Diaspora

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noun

1.

a.

the dispersion of the Jews after the Babylonian and Roman conquests of Palestine

b.

the Jewish communities outside Israel

c.

the Jews living outside Israel

d.

the extent of Jewish settlement outside Israel

2.

(in the New Testament) the body of Christians living outside Palestine

3. (often not capital)

a dispersion or spreading, as of people originally belonging to one nation or having a common culture

4. Caribbean

the descendants of Sub-Saharan African peoples living anywhere in the Western hemisphere

Diaspora

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noun

1.

a.

the dispersion of the Jews after the Babylonian Exile

b.

the Jews thus dispersed

c.

the places where they settled

2. [d-]

any scattering of people with a common origin, background, beliefs, etc.

Diaspora

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n.

1. The dispersion of Jews outside of Israel from the sixth century BC, when they were exiled to Babylonia, until the present time.

2. often diaspora The body of Jews or Jewish communities outside Palestine or modern Israel.

3. diaspora

a. A dispersion of a people from their original homeland.

b. The community formed by such a people: "the glutinous dish known throughout the [West African] diaspora as ... fufu" (Jonell Nash).

4. diaspora A dispersion of an originally homogeneous entity, such as a language or culture: "the diaspora of English into several mutually incomprehensible languages" (Randolph Quirk).

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