Noun: diaspora
| Singular | diaspora |
| Plural | diasporas; diasporae; diasporai |
Sample Sentences
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The African diaspora caused a melding of cultures, both African cultures and Western ones, in many places.
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This scattering abrode of the Iewes, as it were an heauenly sowing, fell out after their returne from the captiuitie of Babylon. Wherevpon both Acts. 2. and also 1. Pet. 1. and 1. Iam. ver. 1. [sic] they are called Diaspora, that is, a scattering or sowing abrode. [1594, Lambert Daneau, A Fruitfull Commentarie Vpon the Twelue Small Prophets, page 1042:]
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We're going to use her to train young people in the skills of maintaining these machines, and encourage the Indian diaspora in this country to get involved in our hobby of steam railways. [2023 July 12, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Saved: Trust protects Adrian Shooter's legacy”, in RAIL, number 987, page 29:]
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Jews in the diaspora often have a different perspective on anti-Semitism than Israeli Jews.
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Small wonder that there should have been in recent years fresh talk of the diaspora of English into several mutually incomprehensible languages [1988, Joseph Foley, New Englishes: the case of Singapore, page 1:]
Nouns inflected like diaspora
topothesia,
AGN,
new drachma,
drachma,
PNN,
didrachma,
mna,
amphora,
hydria,
diaspora,
Etymology
From Ancient Greek διασπορᾱ́ (diasporā́, “dispersion”), from διασπείρω (diaspeírō, “to scatter”), from δια- (dia-, prefix indicating motion across or in all directions) + σπείρω (speírō, “to sow”).