COSSACK

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 I. (noun) 

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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

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Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Cossack" is a kind of...):

Slav (any member of the people of eastern Europe or Asian Russia who speak a Slavonic language)

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