diaspora

Usually Diaspora the scattering of the Jews to countries outside of ancient Palestine after the Babylonian captivity.

Often Diaspora

1. the body of Jews living in countries outside Israel.

2. such countries collectively.

   Passover is celebrated for seven days in Israel, but for eight days by Jews living in the Diaspora.

Often Diaspora any group that has been dispersed outside its traditional homeland, especially involuntarily, as Africans during the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

any group migration or flight from a country or region.

Synonyms:

scattering, displacement, migration, dissemination, dispersion

Antonyms:

return

any religious group living as a minority among people of the prevailing religion.

the spread or dissemination of something originally confined to a local, homogeneous group, as a language or cultural institution.

the diaspora of English as a global language.

1. the dispersion of the Jews after the Babylonian and Roman conquests of Palestine

2. the Jewish communities outside Israel

3. the Jews living outside Israel

4. the extent of Jewish settlement outside Israel

(in the New Testament) the body of Christians living outside Palestine

(often not capital) a dispersion or spreading, as of people originally belonging to one nation or having a common culture

the descendants of Sub-Saharan African peoples living anywhere in the Western hemisphere