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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

Our last “shave,” that of yesterday, goes into the opposite extreme, and tells us that the Kings of Shoa and Lasta have both sent to Colonel Merewether, and have offered to attack Theodore.

From March to Magdala by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)