DIASPORA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Diaspora mean? 

• DIASPORA (noun)
  The noun DIASPORA has 3 senses:

1. the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel

2. 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

3. the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture)

  Familiarity information: DIASPORA used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIASPORA (noun)

Sense 1

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)

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:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("Diaspora" is a kind of...):

dispersion; scattering (spreading widely or driving off)

Sense 3

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)