Noun Definition

diaspora

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

Category: General

2.Definition: 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

Category: General

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

Category: General