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di·as·po·ra
/daɪˈæsp(ə)rə, di-/
猶太人的離散,離散的猶太人
From:
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Di·as·po·ra
n.
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
.
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From:
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
)
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