Definitions for "Sephardi"
Jew who traces his or her heritage to countries around the Mediterranean Sea, as well as France and the Iberian peninsula.
(Hebrew, "native of Spain"), pl. Sephardim — Jews of Spanish and Portuguese extraction. Following their expulsion in the fifteenth century, the Iberian Jews settled around the Mediterranean, the Balkans, western Europe, and the Americas. See Ashkenazi.
A biblical word which came to describe “Spain” and the Jews from around the Mediterranean.