diaspora
noun/daɪˈæspərə/
/daɪˈæspərə/
[singular] (formal)- the diasporathe movement of the Jewish people away from their own country to live and work in other countries; Jewish people living and working in other countries
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- the movement of people from any nation or group away from their own country; people who have moved away from their own country
- the Russian diaspora in London
Word OriginGreek, from diaspeirein ‘disperse’, from dia ‘across’+ speirein ‘scatter’. The term originated in the Septuagint, the Bible (Deuteronomy 28:25) in the phrase esē diaspora en pasais basileias tēs gēs ‘thou shalt be a dispersion in all kingdoms of the earth’.
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