(the Diaspora)(treated as sing. or pl) the Jews living outside Palestine or modern Israel
the settling, or area of settlement, of Jews outside Palestine after the Babylonian exile
(also diaspora) a dispersion or migration, e.g. of people orig coming from the same country or having a common culture, or the people who have dispersed
The American diaspora
[Greek diaspora dispersion, from diaspeirein to scatter, from dia- + speirein to sow]