1. 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

Derived forms: Cossacks

Type of: Slav

Encyclopedia: Cossack Cossack, Western Australia

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