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hetman

/het-muhn/US // ˈhɛt mən //UK // (ˈhɛtmən) //

鹤门,鹤鸣,鹤鸣人,鹤见

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural het·mans.

    • : the title assumed by the chief of Ukrainian Cossacks of the Dnieper River region, with headquarters at Zaporozhe.
    • : ataman.

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Examples

  • Next to them in the right centre the 11th Division was to push for the trenches at Hetman Chair.

  • Suppose the hetman had left his warriors near by, and that they should grow suspicious and come to investigate his long absence?

  • The hetman and many Lituanian pans were taken prisoners, and there was joy in the bulb-topped city.

  • He was confident that the gigantic task could be accomplished, and sent daily instructions to the hetman.

  • In 1610 he was deposed, made a monk, and finally carried off as a trophy by the Polish grand hetman, Stanislaus Zolkiewski.