diaspora
English Thesaurus
1. the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture) (noun.attribute)
| hypernym | : | dispersion, distribution, |
| definition | : | the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume (noun.attribute) |
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 (noun.event)
| hypernym | : | dispersion, scattering, |
| definition | : | spreading widely or driving off (noun.event) |
3. the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel (noun.group)
| hypernym | : | body, |
| definition | : | a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity (noun.group) |
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