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Meaning 1
The dispersion of the Jews from the land of Israel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
Diaspora
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Received-Pronunciation: /daɪˈæs.pə.ɹə/
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Received-Pronunciation: /daɪˈæs.pɹə/
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General-American: /daɪˈæs.pɚ.ə/
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General-American: /daɪˈæs.pɹə/
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General-American: /diˈæs.pɚ.ə/
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General-American: /diˈæs.pɹə/
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name
Meaning 2
The Jews so dispersed.
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Usage: collective
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name
Meaning 3
A similar dispersion.
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Usage: broadly
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noun
Meaning 4
The dispersion of a group in a manner comparable to that of the Jews among the Gentiles after the Babylonian captivity (6th century BCE).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: collective
Examples
- The African diaspora caused a melding of cultures, both African cultures and Western ones, in many places.
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noun
Meaning 5
Jews outside of the land of Israel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, informal
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noun
Meaning 6
The regions where such a dispersed group (especially the Jews) resides, taken collectively.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Jews in the diaspora often have a different perspective on anti-Semitism than Israeli Jews.
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noun
Meaning 7
Any dispersion of an originally homogeneous entity, such as a language or culture.
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noun
Meaning 8
the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: distribution, dispersion
noun
Meaning 9
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: dispersion, scattering
noun
Meaning 10
the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel
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Broader terms: body
History
Etymology
See diaspora.
From Ancient Greek διασπορᾱ́ (diasporā́, “dispersion”), from διασπείρω (diaspeírō, “to scatter”), from δια- (dia-, prefix indicating motion across or in all directions) + σπείρω (speírō, “to sow”).
Across languages
Translations
79 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- German: Golus — dispersion of the Jews from the land of Israel
- Arabic: شَتَات يَهُودِي (šatāt yahūdī) — dispersion of the Jews
- Aramaic: גָּלוּתָא — dispersion of the Jews
- Catalan: diàspora — dispersion of the Jews
- Czech: diaspora — dispersion of the Jews
- Esperanto: diasporo — dispersion of the Jews
- French: diaspora — dispersion of the Jews
- Galician: diáspora — dispersion of the Jews
- Hebrew: גָּלוּת (galút) — dispersion of the Jews
- Irish: diaspóra (na nGiúdach) — dispersion of the Jews
- Italian: diaspora — dispersion of the Jews
- Ladino: galut — dispersion of the Jews
- Ladino: diaspora (djudia) — dispersion of the Jews
- Polish: diaspora — dispersion of the Jews
- Portuguese: diáspora — dispersion of the Jews
- Yiddish: גלות (goles) — dispersion of the Jews
- Yiddish: תּפֿוצות (tfutses) — dispersion of the Jews
- Albanian: diasporë — dispersion of any group of people
- Albanian: mërgatë — dispersion of any group of people
- Arabic: شَتَات (šatāt) — dispersion of any group of people
- Arabic: جالِية (jāliya) — dispersion of any group of people
- Arabic: مَهْجَر (mahjar) — dispersion of any group of people
- Armenian: սփյուռք (spʻyuṙkʻ) — dispersion of any group of people
- Basque: diaspora — dispersion of any group of people
- Belarusian: дыя́спара (dyjáspara) — dispersion of any group of people
- Bulgarian: диаспо́ра (diaspóra) — dispersion of any group of people
- Catalan: diàspora — dispersion of any group of people
- Chinese Mandarin: 散居 (sǎnjū) — dispersion of any group of people
- Chinese Mandarin: 流散 (liúsàn) — dispersion of any group of people
- Chinese Mandarin: 僑民 /侨民 (qiáomín) — dispersion of any group of people
- Chinese Mandarin: 離散 /离散 (lísàn) — dispersion of any group of people
- Czech: diaspora — dispersion of any group of people
- Danish: diaspora — dispersion of any group of people
- Dutch: diaspora — dispersion of any group of people
- Esperanto: diasporo — dispersion of any group of people
- Estonian: diasporaa — dispersion of any group of people
- Estonian: hajala — dispersion of any group of people
- Finnish: diaspora — dispersion of any group of people
- Finnish: hajaannus — dispersion of any group of people
- French: diaspora — dispersion of any group of people
- Galician: diáspora — dispersion of any group of people
- Georgian: დიასპორა (diasṗora) — dispersion of any group of people
- German: Diaspora — dispersion of any group of people
- German: diaspora — dispersion of any group of people
- Greek: διασπορά (diasporá) — dispersion of any group of people
- Hebrew: פְּזוּרָה (pzurá) — dispersion of any group of people
- Hindi: विकीर्णन (vikīrṇan) — dispersion of any group of people
- Hungarian: szórvány — dispersion of any group of people
- Hungarian: diaszpóra — dispersion of any group of people
- Indonesian: diaspora — dispersion of any group of people
- Interlingua: diaspora — dispersion of any group of people
- Irish: diaspóra — dispersion of any group of people
- Italian: diaspora — dispersion of any group of people
- Japanese: ディアスポラ (diasupora) — dispersion of any group of people
- Japanese: 四散 (shisan) — dispersion of any group of people
- Japanese: 離散 (risan) — dispersion of any group of people
- Kazakh: шетжұрт (şetjūrt) — dispersion of any group of people
- Kazakh: ғұрбат (ğūrbat) — dispersion of any group of people
- Korean: 디아스포라 (diaseupora) — dispersion of any group of people
- Ladino: diaspora — dispersion of any group of people
- Macedonian: дијаспора (dijaspora) — dispersion of any group of people
- Norwegian: diaspora — dispersion of any group of people
- Pannonian Rusyn: дияспора (dijaspora) — dispersion of any group of people
- Polish: diaspora — dispersion of any group of people
- Portuguese: diáspora — dispersion of any group of people
- Romanian: diasporă — dispersion of any group of people
- Russian: диа́спора (diáspora) — dispersion of any group of people
- Serbo-Croatian: дијаспора — dispersion of any group of people
- Serbo-Croatian: dijaspora — dispersion of any group of people
- Sicilian: diàspora — dispersion of any group of people
- Slovak: diaspóra — dispersion of any group of people
- Slovene: diaspora — dispersion of any group of people
- Spanish: diáspora — dispersion of any group of people
- Swedish: diaspora — dispersion of any group of people
- Turkish: kopuntu — dispersion of any group of people
- Turkish: diaspora — dispersion of any group of people
- Ukrainian: діа́спора (diáspora) — dispersion of any group of people
- Vietnamese: cộng đồng hải ngoại — dispersion of any group of people
- Yiddish: צעשפּרייטונג (tseshpreytung) — dispersion of any group of people
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