Definitions for Cossack

Cossack Cos·sack

Spelling: [kos-ak, -uh k]
IPA: /ˈkɒs æk, -ək/

Cossack is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 98 anagrams from letters in Cossack (acckoss).

Definitions for Cossack

noun

  1. (especially 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 of Cossack

1590-1600; Polish kozak or Ukrainian kozák, ultimately

Examples for Cossack

In about two hours' time, when all had grown silent in the harbour, I awakened my Cossack.

Yet this was not enough for the Tsars, who saw a risk of the Cossack worldview catching on.

I spread my felt cloak out on one bench, and the Cossack his on the other.

My Cossack met me at the door with a frightened countenance.

I had with me, in the capacity of soldier-servant, a Cossack of the frontier army.

Historically, the Cossack way of living was one of disorder and adaption, of individualism and egalitarianism.

Roughly shaking the Cossack, I woke him up, rated him, and lost my temper.

But in the current crisis, appropriately enough, the nature of a Cossack remains hard to pin down.

The decision maker turned out to be a gray-haired Cossack ataman, or commander, in a traditional sheepskin hat.

Subject has military bearing, short haircut, brought a military uniform or wears the Cossack chevron insignia.

Word Value for Cossack
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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