Cossack Definition

kŏsăk
noun
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 czars.
Webster's New World
Alternative capitalization of Cossack.
Wiktionary
adjective
Of or characteristic of the Cossacks or their culture.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Cossack

Noun

Singular:
Cossack
Plural:
cossacks

Origin of Cossack

  • Russian kazak Ukrainian kozak both from South Turkic qazaq adventurer Kazakh

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Cossack Sentence Examples

  • Tell the Cossack to fetch my kit.

  • The government is well provided with schools, especially on the Cossack territory.

  • During the rebellion of the Cossack chief, Bogdan Chmielnicki (1640), the Poles took it by assault, killing 14,000 persons and burning 5000 houses.

  • The church of the Tithes, rebuilt in 1828-1842, was founded in the close of the 10th century by Prince Vladimir in honour of two martyrs whom he had put to death; and the monastery of St Michael (or of the Golden Heads - so called from the fifteen gilded cupolas of the original church) claims to have been built in 1108 by Svyatopolk II., and was restored in 1655 by the Cossack chieftain Bogdan Chmielnicki.

  • Among the more notable names are those of Nestor the chronicler, and Iliya of Murom, the Old Cossack of the Russian epics.

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Words Starting With

CCOCOS

Words Ending With

KCKACK

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Cossack

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