Cossack
pronunciation
How to pronounce Cossack in British English:
UK [ˈkɔsæk]
How to pronounce Cossack in American English:
US [ˈkɑsæk]
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- 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
Word Origin
- cossack
- cossack: see cassock
- Cossack (n.)
- 1590s, from Russian kozak, from Turkish kazak "adventurer, guerilla, nomad," from qaz "to wander." The same Turkic root is the source of the people-name Kazakh and the nation of Kazakhstan.
Example
- 1. There is also a cossack unit at the base .
- 2. In post-communist russia , their surviving descendants revived some of the cossack traditions , especially their colorful uniforms , but also their conservatism and loyalty to state authority .
- 3. When his grandparents died , the state seized their home in a programme to break up cossack settlements .
- 4. Russian cossack dancing is followed by break-dancing and an interpretive scarf dance .
- 5. A cossack soldier and bystanders watch the patriarch of the russian orthodox church leave a moscow polling station during the presidential election .