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Shoa

Shoa is the alternative form of Shewa.

Shoa is the alternative form of Shoah.

Meaning of Shewa

Proper noun

Shewa

  1. (historical) A historical region of Ethiopia, formerly an autonomous kingdom within the Ethiopian Empire.

Meaning of Shoah

Proper noun

the Shoah

  1. (Jewish) The systematic mass murder (genocide) of an estimated six million European Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany during World War II.
    • I never knew him, or any of my other relatives who died in the Shoah. But I would gladly dump every ounce of that gold into the ocean, just to give them a decent burial.1999, Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

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Questions about Shoa

What is Shoa the alternative form of?
Shoa is the alternative form of Shewa.

Words near Shoa in the dictionary

  1. shnozzle
  2. shnozzles
  3. sho
  4. sho nuff
  5. sho'
  6. Shoa
  7. shoad
  8. shoaded
  9. shoader
  10. shoaders
  11. shoading

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Shoa (page history and authors); Shewa (page history and authors); Shoah (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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