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Definition of Cossack
1. Noun. A member of a Slavic people living in southern European Russia and Ukraine and adjacent parts of Asia and noted for their horsemanship and military skill; they formed an elite cavalry corps in czarist Russia.
Generic synonyms: Slav
Definition of Cossack
1. n. 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.
Definition of Cossack
1. a Russian cavalryman [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cossack
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