diasporan
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Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /daɪˈæspəɹən/, [daɪˈæspəɹn̩]
- (UK) IPA(key): /dʌɪˈaspəɹən/, [dʌɪˈaspəɹn̩]
Adjective edit
diasporan (comparative more diasporan, superlative most diasporan)
- Of or pertaining to a diaspora.
- 1994 August 19, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Tribal Trouble”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- 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 of us are involved in nowadays on multiple levels, in relation to both our own families and ethnic roots and those of others.
- 1995 January 6, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “The 31 best movies of 1994”, in Chicago Reader[2]:
- 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 churches for a calendar, becomes insanely jealous when his diasporan Armenian wife (Egoyan's real-life wife Arsinee Khanjian) converses with their guide in Armenian.
- 1998 November 20, Peter Margasak, “DKV Trio With Johannes Bauer, Axel Dorner & Thomas Lehn”, in Chicago Reader[3]:
- Not ripoff but great triumph of; the world adopts the diasporan esthetic."
Translations edit
of or pertaining to a diaspora
Noun edit
diasporan (plural diasporans)
- A member of a diaspora.
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member of a diaspora
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