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Word: Diaspora
Speech Type: Noun
late 17th century (with reference to the Jewish diaspora): Greek, from diaspeirein ‘disperse’, from dia ‘across’+ speirein ‘scatter’. The term originated in the Septuagint (Deuteronomy 28:25) in the phrase esē diaspora en pasais basileias tēs gēs ‘thou shalt be a dispersion in all kingdoms of the earth’
dʌɪˈasp(ə)rə
the dispersion or spread of a people from their original homeland
Short Definition:dispersion or spread of any people from their original homeland
Examples:- the diaspora of boat people from Asia
- his parents were part of the Scots diaspora
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