English

Alternative forms

• četnik

Noun

chetnik ‎(plural chetniks)

1. (now historical) A Slavic guerrilla fighter in the Balkans.
   • 2002, John K Cox, The History of Serbia, p. 95:

     Since most Chetniks only wanted to fight close to their homes, a mobile army that could carry out sustained campaigns under central command never developed.

   • 2004, Jonathan Steinberg, All of Nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust 1941-43, p. 41:

     By the end of February 1942 Glaise von Horstenau reported to the OKW that the cetniks were parading in every village occupied by the Italians fully armed.

   • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 27:

     By the winter of 1907, it was clear that a number of the četnik bands were operating in Macedonia independently of any supervision; only with some difficulty did an emissary from Belgrade succeed in re-imposing control.

2. An ultra-nationalist Serb.

   • http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Chetnik