Ataman

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A Cossack chief. Also called hetman.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A title of Cossack and haidamak leaders of various kinds. The term was also used for the leader of a fisherman artel and of a band of robbers or thieves.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A hetman, or chief of the Cossacks.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Same as hetman.
    • Word Usage
    "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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