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DIASPORA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("diaspora" is a kind of...):
dispersion; distribution (the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The dispersion of the Jews outside Israel; from the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 587-86 BC when they were exiled to Babylonia up to the present time
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Diaspora" is a kind of...):
dispersion; scattering (spreading widely or driving off)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("diaspora" is a kind of...):
body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity)
