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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD COSSACK

From Russian kazak vagabond, of Turkic origin.
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PRONUNCIATION OF COSSACK

Cossack  [ˈkɒsæk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COSSACK

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cossack can act as a noun and an adjective.
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The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES COSSACK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cossack

Cossacks

Cossacks are a group of predominantly East Slavic people who became known as members of democratic, semi-military communities, predominantly located in Ukraine and in Southern Russia. They inhabited sparsely populated areas and islands in the lower Dnieper, Don, Terek, and Ural river basins and played an important role in the historical and cultural development of both Russia and Ukraine. The origins of the first Cossacks are disputed, though the Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk claimed Khazar origin. The traditional post-imperial historiography dates the emergence of Cossacks to the 14th or 15th centuries, when two connected groups emerged, the Zaporozhian Sich of the Dnieper and the Don Cossack Host. The Zaporizhian Sich were a vassal people of Poland–Lithuania during feudal times. Under increasing social and religious pressure from the Commonwealth, in the mid-17th century the Sich declared an independent Cossack Hetmanate, initiated by a rebellion under Bohdan Khmelnytsky. Afterwards, the Treaty of Pereyaslav brought most of the Ukrainian Cossack state under Russian rule. The Sich with its lands became an autonomous region under the Russian-Polish protectorate.

Definition of Cossack in the English dictionary

The definition of Cossack in the dictionary is any of the free warrior-peasants of chiefly East Slavonic descent who lived in communes, esp in Ukraine, and served as cavalry under the tsars. Other definition of Cossack is of, relating to, or characteristic of the Cossacks.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COSSACK


Barsac
ˈbɑːsæk
coalsack
ˈkəʊlˌsæk
corsac
ˈkɔːsæk
cul-de-sac
ˈkʌldəˌsæk
Cusack
ˈkjuːsæk
daysack
ˈdeɪˌsæk
Gay-Lussac
ˈɡeɪˈluːsæk
gripsack
ˈɡrɪpˌsæk
haversack
ˈhævəˌsæk
hopsack
ˈhɒpˌsæk
knapsack
ˈnæpˌsæk
mailsack
ˈmeɪlˌsæk
ovisac
ˈəʊvɪˌsæk
packsack
ˈpækˌsæk
ransack
ˈrænsæk
rucksack
ˈrʌkˌsæk
sac
sæk
sack
sæk
sacque
sæk
woolsack
ˈwʊlˌsæk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COSSACK

Cosmotron
cosphered
cosplay
cosponsorship
coss
cossack hat
cosset
cosseted
cossie
Cossyra

WORDS THAT END LIKE COSSACK

attack
back
black
crack
Cuttack
feedback
get back
go back
go to the pack
gunny sack
hack
hit the sack
in the black
jack
lack
pack
sad sack
the right track
the sack
track

Synonyms and antonyms of Cossack in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Cossack» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COSSACK

Find out the translation of Cossack to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Cossack from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Cossack» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

哥萨克
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cosaco
570 millions of speakers

English

Cossack
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Cossack
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

القوزاق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

казак
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cossaco
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কসাক সৈনিক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cosaque
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cossack
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kosak
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

コサックの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

코사크
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cossack
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Cossack
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கோசக்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कोसाक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kazak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cosacco
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Kozak
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

козак
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cazac
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Κοζάκος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Cossack
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kosack
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Cossack
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Cossack

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COSSACK»

The term «Cossack» is regularly used and occupies the 72.447 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COSSACK» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Cossack

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COSSACK»

Discover the use of Cossack in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Cossack and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cossack Rebellions: Social Turmoil in the Sixteenth Century ...
The Ukrainian Cossacks were a complex and tenacious group, influential far beyond their numbers. This book offers an admiring, critical, and close examination of the unique cossack phenomenon.
Linda Gordon, 1983
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The Cowboy and the Cossack
The code of the cowboy and the credo of the Cossack offer different measures of manhood — but honor and courage are the same in any language when a common enemy must be faced.
Clair Huffaker, 2012
3
Cossack Girl
Marina Yurlova served in uniform as a fighting Cossack, volunteering in 1914 at the age of 14.
Marina Yurlova, Matthew C. Goodman, 2010
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Nestor Makhno--anarchy's cossack: the struggle for free ...
More than just the incredible exploits of a guerilla revolutionary par excellence, Skirda weaves the tale of a people, and the organizations and practices of anarchism, literally fighting for their lives.
Alexandre Skirda, 2004
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White Terror: Cossack Warlords of the Trans-Siberian
This is the gripping story of a forgotten Russia in turmoil, when the line between government and organized crime blurred into a chaotic continuum of kleptocracy, vengeance and sadism.
Jamie Bisher, 2005
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Central Asia: From the Aryan to the Cossack
The Scholarly Work Starts With The Geographical Background Of The Many Countries Located In The Much Varied Region Of Central Asia - Bounded Roughly On The West By The Caspian Sea, On The South By Persia (Now Iran), Afghanistan, India And ...
James Hutton, 2005
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The Cossack Hero in Russian Literature: A Study in Cultural ...
The Cossack Hero in Russian Literature is the first book to study the development of the Cossack hero and to identify him as part of Russian cultural mythology.
Judith Deutsch Kornblatt, 1992
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National Awakening and Nationalism of the Ukrainian Nation ...
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - Political Systems - History, grade: 1,3, Vilnius University, 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: To describe the Ukrainian nationalism I will also use the ...
Nico Rausch, 2008
9
Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales
This volume of stories has been selected from a Slavonic dialect extraordinarily rich in folk-tales. The language is Ruthenian, or the language of the Cossacks. This was the first translation ever made from Ruthenian into English.
R. Nisbet Bain, 2012
10
The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires
That nation, which included both Ukrainians and Belarusians at the time, was transformed in the works of the eighteenth-century Cossack chroniclers into the Little Russian or Cossack Little Russian nation of the Hetmanate. On the pages of  ...
Serhii Plokhy, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COSSACK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Cossack is used in the context of the following news items.
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Texas Bikers Arrested After Waco Shootout Say They Are Innocent
Either way, police and witnesses say one Cossack was knocked down by a Bandido or a Bandido supporter in the parking lot. Guys from both ... «KPLU News for Seattle and the Northwest, Jul 15»
2
Biker life: Staggs recalls gratifying years as Seattle Cossacks wife
“Once you're a Cossack, you're always a Cossack. Once you get that membership number, you're always in. You're never voted out.”. «Central Kentucky News, Jul 15»
3
Track Talk: Elliott's numbers game is working
... Elliott will have a big say in the point-to-point world this autumn, winter and spring, he'll make his mark with the likes of Don Cossack and co ... «Herald, Jul 15»
4
This Day, July 8, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
1768: Cossack leader Maksym Zaliznyak and 73 rebels were imprisoned in Kyiv-Pechersk Fortress. Zaliznyak had played a key role in the ... «Cleveland Jewish News, Jul 15»
5
Michael Oren's 'Ally' – a profoundly un-Zionist book
The United Nations reverted to a Cossack field tribunal, multiplying charges against innocent Jews. A vicious cycle was established. «Haaretz, Jul 15»
6
WWII Spitfire pilot, 94, visits Buckingham Palace to mark 100th …
“He was released by the Russians on D-Day and then taken prisoner by them for further month in Russia to trade for Cossack prisoners held in ... «Get Surrey, Jul 15»
7
Zlatoust: The cutting edge of Russia's steel arms production
... of knives and edged weapons, producing more than 100 different types, including revived historical patterns like the 1881 Cossack saber. «Russia Beyond the Headlines, Jul 15»
8
WW2 Spitfire pilot, 94, visits Buckingham Palace to mark 100th …
“He was released by the Russians on D-Day and then taken prisoner by them for further month in Russia to trade for Cossack prisoners held in ... «Get Surrey, Jul 15»
9
Cossacks on the run to protect nature
... a middle-aged Cossack, who accompanies me to the nickel extraction ... Bezmensky also incriminated the Cossack leader, Zhitenyov, and ... «Politico, Jul 15»
10
Russian Government Interferes in Anti-Communist Commemoration …
The official event of the commemoration of the Cossack tragedy at Lienz was organized by the anti-Bolshevik Cossack organization led by the ... «NFTU, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Cossack [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/cossack>. Apr 2024 ».
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