[dʌɪˈasp(ə)rə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the dispersion or spread of a people from their original homeland
(e.g: the diaspora of boat people from Asia)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 17th century (with reference to the Jewish diaspora): Greek, from diaspeirein ‘disperse’, from dia ‘across’ + speirein ‘scatter’. The term originated in the Septuagint (Deuteronomy 28:25) in the phrase esē diaspora en pasais basileias tēs gēs ‘thou shalt be a dispersion in all kingdoms of the earth’