ataman
Americannoun
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atamans
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of ataman
1825–35; < Russian atamán, Old Russian vatamanŭ, probably alteration of a Turkic word with the personal suffix -man; identity of initial element disputed
Example Sentences
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The koshevoi ataman is concentrating the Cossacks from all the meadows, streams, and islands.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Meanwhile Eliasenko tried to raise up and carry away the unfortunate ataman; but being rather a slender man and not young, and since Bogun belonged almost to the giants, he could not.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
The ataman felt bitter, angry, sad, and awkward.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
The other, Anton Tatarchuk, ataman of the Chigirin kuren, was a man about forty years old, tall, with a wild expression of face and oblique Tartar eyes.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
From before the cottage came the murmur of the talk of the Cossacks, who were surely in their saddles and waiting for the ataman; but the ataman was in torture.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
“That means state recognition, it means training for our cadets,” Cherkashin explained to his Cossack commanders, who are known as atamans.
From Time ● Mar. 12, 2014
He divided the mob into regiments, appointed colonels from the atamans and experienced Zaporojian essauls, and sent detachments or whole divisions to capture neighboring castles.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Do not think, atamans, that I fear death, or that I defend my life, or that I am exhibiting my innocence.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
On his right side sat Hmelnitski, with the baton; on his left the koshevoi; but the atamans and the deputation from the Brotherhood sat farther away near the walls.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Prom that moment the common council ceased, the rule of atamans and the preponderance of the Brotherhood were at an end.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
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