Usually means: Migration to escape religious persecution.
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  1. hegira: Merriam-Webster
  2. Hegira, hegira: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hegira: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Hegira: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Hegira, hegira: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hegira, hegira: Wordnik
  7. Hegira, hegira: Wiktionary
  8. hegira: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. hegira: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Hegira: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Hegira, hegira: Dictionary.com
  12. hegira: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Hegira: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Hegira: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. hegira: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Hegira: Rhymezone
  17. Hegira: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. hegira: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. hegira: FreeDictionary.org
  20. hegira: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. hegira: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Hegira: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. hegira: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. hegira: Legal dictionary

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  1. Hegira: Encyclopedia

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  1. hegira: A Word A Day

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Hegira)

noun:  A journey taken to escape from danger; an exodus.
noun:  Alternative form of Hijra. [The flight of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Yathrib (later Medina) in 622 ce, which forms the first year of the Islamic era (ah 1).]

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