Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun diaspora

3 senses of diaspora

Sense 1
diaspora -- (the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel)
       => body -- (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body filed out of the auditorium"; "the student body"; "administrative body")

Sense 2
Diaspora -- (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)
       => dispersion, scattering -- (spreading widely or driving off)

Sense 3
diaspora -- (the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture))
       => distribution, dispersion -- (the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume; "worldwide in distribution"; "the distribution of nerve fibers"; "in complementary distribution")