Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cossack

1 sense of cossack

Sense 1
Cossack -- (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)
       => Slav -- (any member of the people of eastern Europe or Asian Russia who speak a Slavonic language)