diaspora

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diaspora (enc)

Noun	1.	diaspora - the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel body - a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body filed out of the auditorium"
	2.	Diaspora - 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 dispersion, scattering - spreading widely or driving off
	3.	diaspora - the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture) dispersion, distribution - the spatial property of being scattered about over an area or volume

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