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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 1.6 [wn]:
Diaspora
n : the dispersion of the Jews from Palestine after the
Babylonian exile (358 BC) [syn: {Diaspora}]
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