Ataman

Word ATAMAN
Character 6
Hyphenation at a man
Pronunciations /ˈætəmən/

Definitions and meanings of "Ataman"

What do we mean by ataman?

A Cossack chief. noun

Same as hetman. noun

A hetman, or chief of the Cossacks. noun

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. noun

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.

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The word "ataman" in example sentences

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. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Renowned as a Cossack leader, Bespalov traces his roots to a seventeenth-century ataman and the Zaporozhian Cossacks immortalized by Gogol in the novel Taras Bulba. ❋ Unknown (2005)

[ "It does not please us!"] for our three officials: the ataman, the scribe, and the treasurer. ❋ Unknown (2005)

“How now, ataman?” asked Petunikoff maliciously, excited and pleased at the sight of his enemy in bonds. ❋ Unknown (2003)

If the ataman should hear of it, we might get into a scrape, and they also. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Do you know what I should have done if we had been taken before the ataman? ❋ Unknown (2003)

“Shall we take them to the ataman, or straight to the custom house officers?” ❋ Unknown (2003)

The ataman might detain them; then, when would they get to Tiflis? ❋ Unknown (2003)

“Did we not intend to take them either to the ataman or to the custom house?” asked Michael, in a disappointed tone. ❋ Unknown (2003)

“They are very dangerous men, and this man here is their leader ... the ataman of the robbers.” ❋ Unknown (2003)

It was Vondrachuk - grandson of an ataman, a man whose Cossack father had commanded seven villages, deeming himself greater than the King of Spain and willing to fight to the death against the Cossack who commanded eight neighboring villages - who spoke the words that ended this long discussion: ❋ Michener, James (1983)

But he also knew that if these wild, undisciplined Cossacks sought to establish a nation now, when they were in reality a hundred and fifty warring principalities, each with its own self - important ataman, they were doomed to disintegra - tion and swift absorption by some better-disciplined neighbor. ❋ Michener, James (1983)

In spite of the violent reclamations of the Polish envoy Wizoçki, the offer was at once accepted, and a mace and kaftan of honour sent to the ataman as ensigns of investiture, while the Poles were warned to desist from hostilities against the subjects of the sultan. ❋ Various (N/A)

Kaledin, ataman of the Don Cossacks, had been dismissed by the Provisional Government for his complicity in the Kornilov affair. ❋ Unknown (1922)

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