Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Cossack chief.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
hetman .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A hetman, or chief of the Cossacks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun historical A title of
Cossack and haidamak leaders of various kinds. The term was also used for the leader of a fishermanartel and of a band ofrobbers orthieves .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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His army razed forty-eight Cossack settlements and killed 7,000 people; but later, fearing Ottoman expansionism, Peter allowed a revival — on the condition that Cossacks accept an ataman, or chieftain, appointed by the czar to rule the oblast.
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Renowned as a Cossack leader, Bespalov traces his roots to a seventeenth-century ataman and the Zaporozhian Cossacks immortalized by Gogol in the novel Taras Bulba.
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Renowned as a Cossack leader, Bespalov traces his roots to a seventeenth-century ataman and the Zaporozhian Cossacks immortalized by Gogol in the novel Taras Bulba.
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[ "It does not please us!"] for our three officials: the ataman, the scribe, and the treasurer.
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His army razed forty-eight Cossack settlements and killed 7,000 people; but later, fearing Ottoman expansionism, Peter allowed a revival — on the condition that Cossacks accept an ataman, or chieftain, appointed by the czar to rule the oblast.
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Renowned as a Cossack leader, Bespalov traces his roots to a seventeenth-century ataman and the Zaporozhian Cossacks immortalized by Gogol in the novel Taras Bulba.
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His army razed forty-eight Cossack settlements and killed 7,000 people; but later, fearing Ottoman expansionism, Peter allowed a revival — on the condition that Cossacks accept an ataman, or chieftain, appointed by the czar to rule the oblast.
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[ "It does not please us!"] for our three officials: the ataman, the scribe, and the treasurer.
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[ "It does not please us!"] for our three officials: the ataman, the scribe, and the treasurer.
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If the ataman should hear of it, we might get into a scrape, and they also.
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"Among his potential allies were worthies like the murderously anti-Bolshevik Cossack atamans Grigory Semeyonov and Ivan Kalmykov, who each controlled a stretch of Far Eastern railroad line."
Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier, p 143
February 11, 2011