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Webster 1913 Edition
Cossack
Cos′sack
(k?s′s?k)
, Noun.
[Russ.
kozak’
, kazak'
: cf. Turk. kazāk
.] One of a warlike, pastoral people, skillful as horsemen, inhabiting different parts of the Russian empire and furnishing valuable contingents of irregular cavalry to its armies, those of Little Russia and those of the Don forming the principal divisions.
Webster 1828 Edition
Cossack
COSSACK
,Noun.
Definition 2024
Cossack
Cossack
See also: cossack
English
Cossacks (military).
Alternative forms
Noun
Cossack (plural Cossacks)
- A member or descendant of an originally (semi-)nomadic population of Eastern Europe and the adjacent parts of Asia, that eventually settled in parts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Russian tsarist Empire (where they constituted a legendary military caste) and the Soviet Union, particularly in areas now comprising southern Russia and Ukraine.
- A member of a military unit (typically cavalry, originally recruited exclusively from the above)
Related terms
Translations
member of a population
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member of a Cossack military unit
Derived terms
- cossack green
- cossack hat