DIASPORA

noun Etymology: Greek, dispersion, from diaspeirein to scatter, from dia- + speirein to sow Date: 1881 1. capitalized the settling of scattered colonies of Jews outside Palestine after the Babylonian exile, the area outside Palestine settled by Jews, the Jews living outside Palestine or modern Israel, 2. the movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland , people settled far from their ancestral homelands , the place where these people live, diasporic adjective