Diaspora
WordNet
noun
(1) The dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture)
(2) 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
(3) The body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel
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Proper noun
- The dispersion of the Jews from the land of Israel.
- The Jews so dispersed, taken collectively.
- A similar dispersion.