ataman
Americannoun
noun
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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
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The ataman felt bitter, angry, sad, and awkward.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
Eliasenko, present at the duel, rushed to the body of the ataman.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
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 Sienkiewicz, Henryk
"And it seems to me, father, that the ataman is going from Kamenyets to Yampol."
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
It was evident that he was too sure of his ataman.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
“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
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 Sienkiewicz, Henryk
From among the names of various colonels and Cossack atamans this one had come to the top, and was on every lip on both banks of the Dnieper.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
In one corner of the square stood the council-house, in which the atamans used to sit under the presidency of the koshevoi.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
The atamans looked at one another in silence.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
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