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diaspora

The origin and history of diaspora.

Etymology

From Greek "diaspora," a scattering or dispersion, from "speirein" (to sow). It was first used of the dispersal of the Jewish people and later broadened to any community living away from its ancestral home.

Origin: Greek

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