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COSSACK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Cossack" is a kind of...):
Slav (any member of the people of eastern Europe or Asian Russia who speak a Slavonic language)