Chetnik
Americannoun
noun
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a Serbian nationalist belonging to a group that fought against the Turks before World War I and engaged in guerrilla warfare during both World Wars
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a member of a Serbian nationalist paramilitary group fighting to retain Serbian influence in the countries which formerly constituted Yugoslavia
Etymology
Origin of Chetnik
1905–10; < Serbo-Croatian čȅtnīk guerrilla, equivalent to čȅt ( a ) troop (cognate with Old Russian cheta, Czech četa ) + -nīk agent suffix ( cf. -nik)
Example Sentences
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Army officers who were with him at Chetnik headquarters.
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Suddenly I saw a Chetnik standing in a group of German officers.
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Nothing that Mihailovich could say would wipe out abundant evidence that some of his Chetnik troops collaborated with the Germans.
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Last week Tito's Government triumphantly announced that they had captured the bushy-bearded, bespectacled Chetnik leader sitting in a mountain cave, guarded by only eleven soldiers of his once-powerful army.
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General Draja Mihailovich, famed Chetnik leader, and the exiled government of adolescent King Peter in London have held that their forces should be saved for the moment of Allied invasion.
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