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Cossack
Meaning
Noun
●
In Ethnonyms, Russia & Ukraine:
A
member
or
descendant
of an
originally
(semi-)nomadic
population
of Eastern Europe and the
adjacent
parts
of Asia,
formed
in part
of
runaways
from
neighbouring
countries, that
eventually
settled in
parts
of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Russian
tsarist
Empire (where they
constituted
a
legendary
military
caste
),
particularly
in areas now
comprising
southern
Russia and Ukraine.
●
A
member
of a
military
unit
(typically
cavalry
,
originally
recruited
exclusively
from the above).
●
In Ethnonyms:
A Ukrainian.
●
Alternative letter-case form of Cossack
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