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say it: dahy-A-spur-uh
diaspora is a noun meaning "the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel". It is pronounced /daɪˈæspɚə/ — dahy-A-spur-uh. It carries 3 recorded senses.
the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel
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
the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for diaspora come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.