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Shoa

1 American  
[shoh-uh] / ˈʃoʊ ə /
Or Shoah

noun

  1. the Holocaust.


Shoa 2 American  
[shoh-ah] / ˈʃoʊ ɑ /

noun

  1. a former kingdom in E Africa: now a province of Ethiopia. 25,290 sq. mi. (65,501 sq. km). Addis Ababa.


Etymology

Origin of Shoa

From Hebrew

Example Sentences

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However, classically-trained Nahem Shoa said museums were increasingly open to representing images of non-white subjects.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2024

Mr Shoa, from London, was a graffiti artist before he trained as a painter.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2024

"Both me and Desmond were trying to paint images of people of colour that were as powerful as Lucien Freud painted white people, you know, so you couldn't ignore them," Mr Shoa said.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2024

"I noticed that survivors of the Shoa, their relatives and descendants, lost the taste of their childhood," she said.

From Salon • Apr. 15, 2022

My father subdued all the population of Shoa, and I fear no enemy to the south, in Guráguê, Enárea, or Zingero.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis

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