Meaning Of The Word Cossack
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Cossack Meaning
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What's The Definition Of Cossack?
Cossack in American English
a member of any of several groups of peasants, chiefly of Russian and Polish descent, that lived in autonomous communal settlements, esp. in the Ukraine, until the late 19th cent: in return for special privileges, they served in the cavalry under the Czar of or characteristic of the Cossacks or their culture noun: a person belonging to any of certain groups of Slavs living chiefly in the southern part of Russia in Europe and forming an elite corps of horsemen Cossack in British English adjective: of, relating to, or characteristic of the Cossacks noun: (formerly) any of the free warrior-peasants of chiefly East Slavonic descent who lived in communes, esp in Ukraine, and served as cavalry under the tsars |
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