DIASPORA
Scrabble letter values: D2I1A1S1P3O1R1A1 = 11
Definition
- noun the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel.
- noun the dispersion of the Jews outside Israel.
- noun the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture).
Examples
- “from the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 587-86 BC when they were exiled to Babylonia up to the present time”
- “The African diaspora caused a melding of cultures, both African cultures and Western ones, in many places.”
- “Jews in the diaspora often have a different perspective of anti-Semitism from Israeli Jews.”