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Definition of DIASPORA
Diaspora 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.