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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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Mr Shoa said it was a "dream come true" that his work would appear alongside artists including Rembrandt and Lucian Freud.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2024

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

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2024

Mr Shoa said the art world had evolved and got better at promoting the work of artists from ethnic minorities.

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

Father Alvarez has recorded the unfavourable reception experienced in Shoa at the hands of the young emperor, who could never be brought to recognise his mother’s proceedings, which had led to this influx of foreigners.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis