[di.as.po.ra] n [Gk, dispersion, fr. diaspeirein to scatter, fr. dia- + speirein to sow] (1881) 1 cap 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 breaking up and scattering of a people: migration "the black ~ to northern cities" b: people settled far from their ancestral homelands "African ~" c: the place where these people live