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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
Cossack
 
SYLLABICATION:Cos·sack
PRONUNCIATION:  ksk
NOUN: A member of a people of southern European Russia and adjacent parts of Asia, noted as cavalrymen especially during czarist times.
ETYMOLOGY:Russian kazakUkrainian kozak, both from South Turkic qazaq, adventurer. See Kazakh.
OTHER FORMS:Cossack —ADJECTIVE
 
 
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