Definitions for Diaspora

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Diaspora di·as·po·ra

Spelling: [dahy-as-per-uh, dee-]

IPA: /daɪˈæs pər ə, di-/

Diaspora is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 302 anagrams from letters in Diaspora (aadioprs).

Definitions for Diaspora

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:
4. any group migration or flight from a country or region. Synonyms: dispersion, dissemination, migration, displacement, scattering. Antonyms: return.
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:

Origin of Diaspora

First recorded in 1875-80, diaspora is from the Greek word diasporá a dispersion. See dia-, spore

Examples for Diaspora

Evans, 85, thinks of himself as part of a British media “diaspora” which is currently in its third wave.

Fifth, there is the Brethren's diaspora work, which now extends all over Germany.

Perhaps there is a lesson to be learnt here by Macedonians in the diaspora.

But the diaspora was by no means confined to these three centres.

The answer is left unclear, but diaspora is certainly intended to be profitable.

But in the case of Israel, it has a special obligation to protect the Jewish diaspora.

The fourth method employed by the Brethren was the diaspora.

In name it was English enough; in nature it was Zinzendorf's diaspora.

Most coup members “lived in the diaspora in the United States and Germany,” Faal said.

“The general mindset in Israel regarding its responsibility towards the diaspora is based on three principles,” Yadlin said.