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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a Jew who is of Spanish or Portuguese or North African descent [syn: Sephardi, Sephardic Jew]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural Sephardim) Etymology: Late Hebrew s?ph?radh?, from s?ph?radh Spain, from Hebrew, region where Jews were once exiled (Obadiah
1:20) Date: 1851 a member of the occidental branch of European Jews settling in Spain and Portugal and later in the Balkans, the Levant, England, the Netherlands, and the Americas; also one of their descendants — compare Ashkenazi • Sephardic adjective

Britannica Concise

Member of the Jews, or their descendants, who lived in Spain and Portugal from the Middle Ages until their expulsion in the late 15th cent. They fled first to N. Africa and other parts of the Ottoman empire and eventually settled in such countries as France, Holland, England, Italy, and the Balkan states. They differ from the Ashkenazi Jews in their traditional language, Ladino, and in their preservation of Babylonian rather than Palestinian Jewish ritual traditions. Of today's estimated 700,000 Sephardic Jews, many live in Israel.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. Sephardim) a Jew of Spanish or Portuguese descent (cf. ASHKENAZI). Derivatives: Sephardic adj. Etymology: LHeb., f. separad, a country mentioned in Obad. 20 and taken to be Spain