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.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

	

	diaspora
     n 1: the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine
          or modern Israel
     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 dispersion or spreading of something that was originally
        localized (as a people or language or culture)