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Diaspora
(redirected from Galut)

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Di·as·po·ra  (d-spr-)
n.
1. The dispersion of Jews outside of Israel from the sixth century b.c., 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).

[Greek diaspor, dispersion, from diaspeirein, to spread about : dia-, apart; see dia- + speirein, to sow, scatter; see sper- in Indo-European roots.]

diasporic, diasporal adj.

Diaspora [daɪˈæspərə]
n
1. (Historical Terms) (Social Science / Peoples)
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. (Christian Religious Writings / Bible) (in the New Testament) the body of Christians living outside Palestine
3. (Social Science / Anthropology & Ethnology) (Sociology) (often not capital) a dispersion or spreading, as of people originally belonging to one nation or having a common culture
[from Greek: a scattering, from diaspeirein to disperse, from dia- + speirein to scatter, sow; see spore]

Diaspora
the scattering of the Jews after the period of Babylonian exile.
See also: Judaism
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.Diasporadiaspora - the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel
body - a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body filed out of the auditorium"; "the student body"; "administrative body"
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
dispersion, scattering - spreading widely or driving off
3.diaspora - the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture)
dispersion, distribution - the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume; "worldwide in distribution"; "the distribution of nerve fibers"; "in complementary distribution"
Translations
diaspora [daɪˈæspərə] Ndiáspora f
diaspora [daɪˈæspərə] ndiaspora f
the Irish diaspora → la diaspora irlandaise
diaspora
nDiaspora f
Diaspora [daɪˈæspərə] nDiaspora
diaspora [daɪˈæspərə] n (frm) → diaspora
Diaspora [daɪˈæspərə] nDiaspora
diaspora [daɪˈæspərə] n (frm) → diaspora


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