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for diaspora
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Diaspora \Di*as"po*ra\, n. [Gr. ?. See Diaspore.]
Lit., "Dispersion." -- applied collectively: (a) To those
Jews who, after the Exile, were scattered through the Old
World, and afterwards to Jewish Christians living among
heathen. Cf. --James i. 1. (b) By extension, to Christians
isolated from their own communion, as among the Moravians to
those living, usually as missionaries, outside of the parent
congregation.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 :
diaspora
n 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)
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