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diaspora
[ dahy-as-per-uh, dee- ]
noun
- Usually Diaspora. the scattering of the Jews to countries outside of ancient Palestine after the Babylonian captivity.
- Often Diaspora.
- the body of Jews living in countries outside Israel.
- such countries collectively:
Passover is celebrated for seven days in Israel, but for eight days by Jews living in the Diaspora.
- Often Diaspora. any group that has been dispersed outside its traditional homeland, especially involuntarily, as Africans during the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
- any group migration or flight from a country or region.
Synonyms: , , , ,
Antonyms:
- any religious group living as a minority among people of the prevailing religion.
- 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.
Diaspora
/ 岹ɪˈæəə /
noun
- the dispersion of the Jews after the Babylonian and Roman conquests of Palestine
- the Jewish communities outside Israel
- the Jews living outside Israel
- the extent of Jewish settlement outside Israel
- (in the New Testament) the body of Christians living outside Palestine
- often not capital a dispersion or spreading, as of people originally belonging to one nation or having a common culture
- the descendants of Sub-Saharan African peoples living anywhere in the Western hemisphere
Other Word Forms
- 徱··· [dahy-, uh, -, spawr, -ik, ‑-, spor, -ik], adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of diaspora1
Example Sentences
Today their descendants make up a diaspora of nearly six million stretching from the United States and Canada to France, Germany, Japan and Taiwan.
A critical factor in boosting Armenia's tech development is the nation's global diaspora – some 75% of the world's estimated Armenians, and people of Armenian descent, live elsewhere.
“If you want to take advantage of the strength of the diaspora, then you have to tone down your rhetoric.”
The cascading amber-encapsulated ceramic bones, together with found objects and ephemera from MacArthur Park, serve as a gesture to the green space’s deep history of organizing and presence for the Central American diaspora.
Orange County is home to the largest diaspora of Vietnamese outside of their home country, many of them refugees who fled the fall of Saigon.
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