Diaspora

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).

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

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diasporic, diasporal adj.

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Diaspora [die-ass-spore-a]

Noun

1. the dispersion of the Jews after the Babylonian conquest of Palestine

2. a dispersion of people originally belonging to one nation [Greek: a scattering]

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Diaspora

the scattering of the Jews after the period of Babylonian exile.

See also: Judaism

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	diaspora - 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"