单词 | Diaspora |
释义 | Word Frequency Diaspora(daɪˈæspərə) noun 1. a. the dispersion of the Jews after the Babylonian and Roman conquests of Palestine b. the Jewish communities outside Israel c. the Jews living outside Israel d. the extent of Jewish settlement outside Israel 2. (in the New Testament) the body of Christians living outside Palestine 3. (often not capital) a dispersion or spreading, as of people originally belonging to one nation or having a common culture 4. Caribbean the descendants of Sub-Saharan African peoples living anywhere in the Western hemisphere Word origin C19: from Greek: a scattering, from diaspeirein to disperse, from dia- + speirein to scatter, sow; see spore |
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