The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word DIASPORA
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More clues leading to the result DIASPORA
- Return said sources of 3, 7, 15 and 9 for all those who have left their homeland
- DIY as sport? An endless mass escape
- Migrants told to return almost left a …
- Displaced people creating ado with Paris wrecked
- Dispersion on road to Pisa
- Migration is terribly sporadic one without the least bit of comfort
- A good fellow largely blocks charitable money raised for popular movement?
- A drop is spilt before a popular scattering?
- Perhaps NRIs returning help with special gold article
- Spad and senorita leave nest behind for risky migration
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What does DIASPORA mean?
DIASPORA noun- The dispersion of the Jews among the Gentiles after the Babylonian captivity (6th century B.C.E.).
- (by extension) Any similar dispersion.
- (collective) A group so dispersed, especially Jews outside of the land of Israel.
- The regions where such a dispersed group (especially the Jews) resides, taken collectively.
- Any dispersion of an originally homogeneous entity, such as a language or culture.