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chetnik

UK/ˈtʃɛtnɪk/

chetnik noun: a member of a Serbian royalist army band.

Noun (1)

chetnik (plural chetniks)

  1. (historical) A member of a Serbian royalist army band.
    • Since most Chetniks only wanted to fight close to their homes, a mobile army that could carry out sustained campaigns under central command never developed.2002, John K Cox, The History of Serbia, page 95
    • By the end of February 1942 Glaise von Horstenau reported to the OKW that the cetniks were parading in every village occupied by the Italians fully armed.2004, Jonathan Steinberg, All of Nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust 1941-43, page 41
  2. An adherent of a nationalist revival of the historical Chetnik movement.
    • The Visegrad gathering, which saw uniform-wearing participants singing songs that included lines such as "there will be hell, the Drina will be bloody, here come the Chetniks from the Serb mountains’, provoked wariness and fear among Bosniak residents who survived some of the worst atrocities...2019 March 11, Mersiha Gadzo, “Serb Chetnik gathering in Bosnia’s Visegrad raises alarm”, in Al Jazeera

Noun (2) capitalized: Chetnik

Chetnik (plural Chetniks)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of chetnik.

Forms of chetnik

pluralchetniks
alternative formčetnik
alternative formChetnik
pluralChetniks

Origin of chetnik

From Serbo-Croatian četnik, from četa (“band, group”) + -nik.

Questions about chetnik

What does chetnik mean?
Chetnik means a member of a Serbian royalist army band.
What part of speech is chetnik?
Chetnik is a noun.
How do you pronounce chetnik?
Chetnik is pronounced /ˈtʃɛtnɪk/ (UK).
What is the plural of chetnik?
The plural of chetnik is chetniks.

Words near chetnik in the dictionary

  1. chete
  2. chetes
  3. cheth
  4. cheths
  5. Chetna
  6. chetnik
  7. chetniks
  8. Chetnole
  9. chetocin
  10. chetomin
  11. chetopod

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