English Explanatory Dictionary

strelets

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A unit of Russian guardsmen from the 16th to the early 18th centuries, armed with a firearm.

Word forms

strelets streltsy

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian стреле́ц (streléc).

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