See chetnik on Wiktionary
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"četnik",
"četnik#Serbo-Croatian"
],
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"četa",
"četa#Serbo-Croatian"
],
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"-nik",
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]
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"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
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},
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11,
19
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],
"ref": "2002, John K Cox, The History of Serbia, page 95:",
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78,
85
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"ref": "2004, Jonathan Steinberg, All of Nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust 1941-43, page 41:",
"text": "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.",
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63
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"ref": "2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 27:",
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"A member of a Serbian royalist army band."
],
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],
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"(now historical) A member of a Serbian royalist army band."
],
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"ref": "2019 March 11, Mersiha Gadzo, “Serb Chetnik gathering in Bosnia’s Visegrad raises alarm”, in Al Jazeera:",
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"An adherent of a nationalist revival of the historical Chetnik movement."
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"ipa": "/ˈtʃɛtnɪk/",
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}
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78,
85
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57,
63
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"A member of a Serbian royalist army band."
],
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],
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"army",
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"type": "quotation"
}
],
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],
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"adherent",
"adherent"
],
[
"nationalist",
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],
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"revival",
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]
]
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"ipa": "/ˈtʃɛtnɪk/",
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]
}
],
"word": "chetnik"
}
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