diasporic








noun

  1. (usually initial capital letter) the scattering of the Jews to countries outside of Palestine after the Babylonian captivity.
  2. (often initial capital letter) the body of Jews living in countries outside Israel.
  3. (often initial capital letter) such countries collectively: the return of the Jews from the Diaspora.
  4. any group migration or flight from a country or region.
  5. any group that has been dispersed outside its traditional homeland, especially involuntarily, as Africans during the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
  6. any religious group living as a minority among people of the prevailing religion.
  7. the spread or dissemination of something originally confined to a local, homogeneous group, as a language or cultural institution: the diaspora of English as a global language.

noun

    1. the dispersion of the Jews after the Babylonian and Roman conquests of Palestine
    2. the Jewish communities outside Israel
    3. the Jews living outside Israel
    4. the extent of Jewish settlement outside Israel
  1. (in the New Testament) the body of Christians living outside Palestine
  2. (often not capital) a dispersion or spreading, as of people originally belonging to one nation or having a common culture
  3. Caribbean the descendants of Sub-Saharan African peoples living anywhere in the Western hemisphere
n.

1876, from Greek diaspora “dispersion,” from diaspeirein “to scatter about, disperse,” from dia- “about, across” (see dia-) + speirein “to scatter” (see sprout). The Greek word was used in Septuagint in Deut. xxviii:25. A Hebrew word for it is galuth “exile.” Related: Diasporic.

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