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Cos⋅sack

  [kos-ak, -uhk]
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–noun
(esp. in czarist Russia) a person belonging to any of certain groups of Slavs living chiefly in the southern part of Russia in Europe and forming an elite corps of horsemen.
Origin:
1590–1600; < Polish kozak or Ukrainian kozák, ult. < a Turkic word taken to mean “adventurer, freebooter,” adopted as an ethnic name by Turkic tribal groups of the Eurasian steppes
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Cos·sack   (kŏs'āk)   
n.  A member of a people of southern European Russia and adjacent parts of Asia, noted as cavalrymen especially during czarist times.

[Russian kazak and Ukrainian kozak, both from South Turkic qazaq, adventurer; see Kazakh.]
Cos'sack' adj.
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