Kozak — meaning in English
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English meaning
- Cossack noun A member of a historically semi-independent warrior community from Eastern Europe, especially southern Russia and Ukraine.
Senses
Kozak is used for these senses in English:
- Cossack 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 and constituted a military caste, particularly in areas now comprising southern Russia and Ukraine.
Cossack — full definition
- noun A member of a historically semi-independent warrior community from Eastern Europe, especially southern Russia and Ukraine.
- noun A soldier serving in a Cossack military unit.