diaspora vs distribution

distribution vs diaspora

diaspora and distribution both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
diaspora	Yes	No	No	No
distribution	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, distribution is a hypernym of diaspora; that is, distribution is a word with a broader meaning than diaspora:

diaspora: the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture)
distribution: the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume

Other hypernyms of diaspora include dispersion.

diaspora (noun)	distribution (noun)
the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture)	the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning
the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel	the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer
	the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume
	(statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence

Difference between diaspora and distribution

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