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hetman

[het-muhn] / ˈhɛt mən /
NOUN
commanding officer
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At table's head sat Grandson Bernard, president of Gimbel Brothers, Inc. and present family hetman.

From Time Magazine Archive

The book began with Mandelstam's first arrest in 1934 for a poem that described the dictator as a tribal hetman savoring each death like a raspberry.

From Time Magazine Archive

They will trust me now still more, all of them, the hetman himself, Bogush, Myslishevski, the command here,—all!

From Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

His messenger came to the residence of the hetman to inquire if any of his attendants knew of the little knight.

From Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

East of the Dnieper another hetman ruled; but there the Poles could take no part in struggles for the office.

From Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk