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

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

It prevails in Shoa, as well as in all the provinces included between the Taccázê and the blue Nile, and is thus spoken by the greater portion of the population of Abyssinia.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris

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