Urban Dictionary: diaspora

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1. A dispersion of people from their homeland.
2. A local metal band from Atlanta Georgia.

1. The Armenians in America are a diaspora.
2. There was a huge mosh pit when I saw Diaspora in concert in Atlanta.

by Pat November 07, 2004

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A community of people who do not inhabit their homelands. Usually a group moved enmass for a period of time in history which now only immigrate in small numbers.

Australians, Americans and South Africans are the diaspora of England.

by waffle July 25, 2004

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diaspora

A new social network content like facebook, created by 4 NY university students. But unlike facebook, it's the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network. The service starts in September, 2010.

A: Have you heard about new social network called diaspora?
B: Yeah, I might quit facebook and join that instead.