DIASPORA


Meaning of DIASPORA in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ dī-ˈas-p(ə-)rə, dē- ]

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 ˌdī-ə-ˈspȯr-ik adjective

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.