Look up: Diaspora

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   diaspora
   [Noun] A spreading, or scattering, around the world of people with the same culture.
   Example: Indians living outside India are known as the Indian diaspora. Origin:Originally used to talk about Jews who lived beyond Palestine and Israel.
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   Diaspora
   The dispersal of an ethnic population from an original homeland into foreign areas, often in a forced manner or under traumatic circumstances.
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   Diaspora
   [n] - the dispersion of the Jews from Palestine after the Babylonian exile (358 BC)
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   Diaspora
   refers to the dispersal of a population from its 'homeland' into other areas
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   diaspora
   Dispersal of the Jews, initially from Israel and Judah 586-538 BC after the Babylonian conquest (the Babylonian Captivity, or exile); and then the major diaspora following the Roman sacking of...
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   Diaspora
   Di·as'po·ra noun [ Greek .... 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. Confer James i. 1 . (b) By extension, to Christians isolated from their own communion, as among the Moravians to those living, usually as miss ...
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   diaspora
   noun the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture)
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   Diaspora
   noun 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
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   diaspora
   noun the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel
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    Diaspora
    The term `diaspora` refers to any people or ethnic population who are forced or induced to leave their traditional homelands, the dispersal of such people, and the ensuing developments in their culture.
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    Diaspora
    • (n.) 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 o...
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    diaspora
    (from the article `Eastern Orthodoxy`) The Orthodox diaspora—the emigration from eastern Europe and the Middle East—in the 20th century has contributed to modern theological development ...
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    Diaspora
    the dispersion of Jews among the Gentiles after the Babylonian Exile; or the aggregate of Jews or Jewish communities scattered `in exile` outside ... [15 related articles]
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    diaspora
    diaspora 1. The dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture); the dispersion of a people from their original homeland. 2. The dispersion of an originally homogeneous entity; such as, a language or culture: “The diaspora of English into several mutually incomprehensible languages.” 3. The dispersi...
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    Diaspora
    Diaspora (dīăs'puru) [Gr.,=dispersion], term used today to denote the Jewish communities living outside the Holy Land. It was originally used to designate the dispersal of the Jews at the time of the destruction of the first Temple (586 B.C.) and the forced exile [Heb.,=Galut] to Bab...
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    Diaspora
    Literally the Greek word signifies a scattering or dispersion. Name given to the countries through which the Jews were dispersed after being exiled or deported from their homeland and also to the Jews living in those lands. Also applied to converts from Judaism to Christianity of the early Church living outside of Palestine. -- J.J.R.
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