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diasporan

UK/daɪˈæspəɹən/

diasporan adjective: of or pertaining to a diaspora.

Adjective

diasporan (comparative more diasporan, superlative most diasporan)

  1. Of or pertaining to a diaspora.
    • The process by which ethnic sites become calendar illustrations--and ethnicity and history become a commodity--entails a chain of communication that passes from nationalist to diasporan to assimilationist, bringing the first two closer together and moving the second two further apart, a chain all...1994 August 19, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Tribal Trouble”, in Chicago Reader
    • Using some of his familiar loop strategies, whereby the same material gets compulsively replayed, Egoyan tells a story about a marriage that disintegrates during a trip from North America to Armenia, where an assimilated Canadian-Armenian photographer (Egoyan himself), while shooting a dozen rural...1995 January 6, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “The 31 best movies of 1994”, in Chicago Reader

Noun

diasporan (plural diasporans)

  1. A member of a diaspora.

Forms of diasporan

Adjective
comparativemore diasporan
superlativemost diasporan
Noun
pluraldiasporans

Origin of diasporan

From diaspora + -an.

Questions about diasporan

What does diasporan mean?
Diasporan means of or pertaining to a diaspora.
What part of speech is diasporan?
Diasporan can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce diasporan?
Diasporan is pronounced /daɪˈæspəɹən/ (UK).

Words near diasporan in the dictionary

  1. diaspora
  2. diasporae
  3. diasporai
  4. diasporal
  5. diasporals
  6. diasporan
  7. diasporans
  8. diasporas
  9. diasporated
  10. diasporation
  11. diasporations

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