Diaspora
Definition
Noun
1. The movement, migration, or scattering of a people far from their established or ancestral homeland.
2. A population scattered across regions far from their traditional homeland, but retaining cultural, emotional, and/or historical ties with that homeland, whether the dispersal was forced or voluntary.
Much of the Irish diaspora occurred during the Great Famine, between 1845 and 1852.
Word Origin
From Greek diaspeirō (to scatter)
< dia (through, across) + speiro (to sow or scatter)
Synonyms
scattering, displacement, migration, dispersion, exodus
Antonyms
return, repatriation
