n.
Pronunciation: d ī - ' as-p( ə -)r ə , d ē -
Function: noun
Etymology: Greek, dispersion, from diaspeirein to scatter, from dia- + speirein to sow
Date: 1881
1 capitalized a : the settling of scattered colonies of Jews outside Palestine after the Babylonian exile b : the area outside Palestine settled by Jews c : the Jews living outside Palestine or modern Israel
2 a : the movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland <the black diaspora to northern cities> b : people settled far from their ancestral homelands <African diaspora > c : the place where these people live
– di · a · spor · ic \ ˌ d ī - ə - ' spo ̇ r-ik \ adjective