diaspora

1. 1.

   the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel

   Broaderbody
2. 2.

   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

   Broaderdispersion
3. 3.

   the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture)

   Broaderdistribution

Other forms of diaspora

plural

diasporas·

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.

Questions about diaspora

What does diaspora mean?

diaspora means "the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in diaspora?

diaspora has 4 syllables: di-as-po-ra. The stress falls on "as". In IPA it is /daɪˈæspɚə/.

Is diaspora a common word?

diaspora is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.