1) Jewish group in Iberia 
• (n. pl.) Jews who are descendants of the former Jews of Spain and Portugal. They are as a rule darker than the northern Jews, and have more delicate features.
Se·phar'dim noun plural [ NHeb.; orig. uncert.] Jews who are descendants of the former Jews of Spain and Portugal. They are as a rule darker than the northern Jews, and have more delicate features. 
Jews originating from Mediterranean countries, especially Spain, North Africa and the Middle East.
(sing., Sephardi; adj., Sephardic) Basically Jews whose families were of Spanish or Portuguese origin, wherever resident; historically, they tended to speak Ladino ( q.v. ) or Arabic. The term is often applied to those Jews who are not Ashkenazim. Since the 1960s, Sephard have often been called Oriental Jews.