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
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cossack::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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Cossack Mamay is encountered in legends, folk stories and proverbs.
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Cossack family values are simple, rigid, and to a Western eye, seem to come from another era.
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That's why the cossack fortress Sitch became such an attraction to all who aspired to remain free.
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Cossack Mamay being tempted to drink by the Polish-looking Satan.
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Cossack numbers expanded with peasants escaping serfdom in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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Cossack produced about 50,490 barrels a day of oil on average in the first quarter, Woodside said April 17.
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This pro-cossack school generally aligns itself with Izvestia's West Coast theory of American baseball.
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Cossack cadets practiced using whips in Stavropol, Russia.
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Cossack, completed in 1979, is another classic image, which reflects Konovalenko's Ukrainian heritage.
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- 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
- Cossacks (Ukrainian: u043Au043Eu0437u0430u043Au0438u0301, koza'ky, Russian: u043Au0430u0437u0430u043Au0438u0301, kaza'ki) are a group of predominantly East Slavic-speaking people who became known as members of democratic, self-governing, semi-military communities, predominantly located in Ukraine and in Russia...
- A member or descendant of an originally (semi-)nomadic population of Eastern Europe and the adjacent parts of Asia, that eventually settled in parts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Russian tsarist Empire (where they constituted a legendary military caste) and the Soviet Union, ...
- (Cossacks) Cavalry soldiers who formed a caste and almost a nationality in czarist Russia, since they enjoyed special privileges (exemption from taxes and land allotments) in return for obligatory military service, and since the land allotments were consigned to special teritories.
- (cossacks) Originally peasants, primarily Ukrainian and Russian, who fled from bondage to the lower Dnepr and Don river regions to settle in the frontier areas separating fifteenth-century Muscovy (q.v.), Poland, and the lands occupied by Tatars. ...
- (Cossacks) A special caste with a strong military (but also communal-democratic) tradition. They were used by the tsarist regime as auxiliaries of the police against strikes and demonstrations. ...
- (Cossacks) Peoples of the Russian Empire who lived outside the farming villages, often as herders, mercenaries, or outlaws. Cossacks led the conquest of Siberia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. (p. 552)
- (cossacks) Peasants recruited to migrate to newly seized lands in Russia, particularly in south; combined agriculture with military conquests; spurred additional frontier conquests and settlements. (p. 567)
- To dream of a Cossack, denotes humiliation of a personal character, brought about by dissipation and wanton extravagance.
