diaspora (n.)

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

  2. 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

    [ Syn: diaspora ]

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

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