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het·man (het′mən)

noun pl. hetmans -·mans

a Cossack leader

Etymology: Pol < Ger hauptmann, a captain, lit., head man < haupt, head + mann, man

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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