Hypertext Webster Gateway: "diaspora"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Diaspora \Di*as"po*ra\, n. [Gr. ?. 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. 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 of the parent
congregation.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Diaspora
n : the dispersion of the Jews from Palestine after the
Babylonian exile (358 BC) [syn: {Diaspora}]
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