Cossack
noun
Cos·sack ˈkä-ˌsak 
-sək
1
: a member of any of a number of autonomous communities drawn from various ethnic and linguistic groups (such as Slavs, Tatars, and Circassians) that formed in Ukraine, southern Russia, the Caucasus Mountains, and Siberia after about 1400 and that were completely incorporated into czarist Russia during the 18th and 19th centuries
2
: a mounted soldier serving in a unit drafted from Cossack communities
Word History
Etymology
Polish & Ukrainian kozak, of Turkic origin; akin to Volga Tatar kazak free person
First Known Use
1589, in the meaning defined at sense 1
- devil's-snuffbox
- devil's-snuffboxes
- devil's-tongue
- devil's-tongues
- devil's-walking-stick
- devil's-walking-sticks
- devil's-weed
- devil's-weeds
- devil-club
- devil-dancer
- devil-devil
- devil-diver
- devil-dodger
- devil-fire
- devil-god
- devil-in-a-bush
- devil-in-a-mist
- devil-in-the-bush
- devil-may-care
- devildom
- deviled
- deviler
- deviles
- devilesses
- devilets