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   Di·as·po·ra

   /dīˈasp(ə)rə/

   

   noun

   • 1. the dispersion or spread of a people from their original homeland: "the diaspora of boat people from Asia"
   • ▪ people who have spread or been dispersed from their homeland: "the Ukrainian diaspora flocked back to Kiev"
   • ▪ the dispersion of the Jewish people beyond Israel: "a secular interpretation of Jewish history in antiquity and during the Diaspora"
   • ▪ Jewish people living outside Israel: "Jewish cookery of the Diaspora can be divided into two main branches"

   Word Origin late 17th century (with reference to the Jewish diaspora): Greek, from diaspeirein ‘disperse’, from dia ‘across’ + speirein ‘scatter’. The term originated in the Septuagint (Deuteronomy 28:25) in the phrase esē diaspora en pasais basileias tēs gēs ‘thou shalt be a dispersion in all kingdoms of the earth’.

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   • 1. diasporic adjective

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   : the movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland. the Black diaspora to northern cities. diasporic. ˌdī-ə-ˈspȯr-ik. adjective. Did you know? The Beginnings of the Word Diaspora.

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   /diˈæsp (ə)rə/ dee-ASS-puh-ruh. See pronunciation. Where does the noun diaspora come from? Earliest known use. late 1600s. The earliest known use of the noun diaspora is in the late 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for diaspora is from 1694, in the writing of John Owen, theologian and Independent minister. diaspora is of multiple origins.

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   the movement of people from any nation or group away from their own country; people who have moved away from their own country. Definition of diaspora noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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