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Definition of Chechen

1. Adjective. Of or relating to Chechnya or its people or culture.

2. Noun. A native or inhabitant of Chechnya.

3. Noun. A northern Caucasian language spoken by the Chechen.

Definition of Chechen

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to Chechnya ¹

2. Noun. An ethnic group originating from Chechnya in the North Caucasus region. ¹

3. Noun. Someone belonging to this ethnic group. ¹

4. Proper noun. A North-Central Caucasian language spoken in Chechnya. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chechen

Chavistas Chayes Chayes' method Chazal Che Guevara Cheadle's disease Cheadle-Möller-Barlow syndrome Cheapside Cheaster Cheatle slit

Cheboksary Chebyshev's inequality Chebyshev's theorem Chece Checes Chechen (current term) Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Oblast Chechen Autonomous Oblast Chechen Republic Chechenia

Chechens Chechneya Chechnia Chechniya Chechnya Cheddar Cheddar cheese Cheddar cheeses Cheddarhead Cheddarheads

Literary usage of Chechen

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Landmine Monitor Report 2002: Toward a Mine-free World by International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Human Rights Watch (Organization). (2002)
"While at one point officials had said that the Chechen Republic would be ready to sign the Mine Ban Treaty immediately,1 with the ..."

2. Landmine Monitor Report 2000: Toward a Mine-Free World by International Campaign to Ban Land Mines, International Campaign to Ban Landmines (2000)
"In April 2000, the Russian military revealed plans to deploy mines along the southern Chechen border with Georgia. In December 1999, mine clearance ..."

3. Scientists, Engineers, and Track-Two Diplomacy: A Half-Century of U.S by Glenn E. Schweitzer (2004)
"An interacademy workshop in Sochi in September 2002, with organizational assistance from the Chechen-led Fund for Humanitarian Assistance to the Chechen ..."

4. Landmine Monitor Report 1999: Toward a Mine-free World by International Campaign to Ban Land Mines (1999)
"Mine Ban Policy Chechnya is not an internationally-recognized sovereign state, and therefore cannot sign the Mine Ban Treaty. The Chechen Minister of ..."

5. Regional Peacekeepers: The Paradox of Russian Peacekeeping by John Mackinlay, Peter Cross (2003)
"In February 1994 the Russian Duma called for negotiations with the Chechen opposition and denounced Dudayev. 1n July Yeltsin's titular chief of staff, ..."

6. Germ Warfareby John Lonergan by John Lonergan (2001)
"For the Chechen people as well as the Georgian people, I know that your aims are correct. " His voice rose with emotion. " But have you ever heard of a case ..."

7. "Welcome to Hell": Arbitrary Detention, Torture, and Extortion in Chechnya by Johanna Bjorken, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Watch (Organization), Peter Bouckaert (2000)
"In February 2000, Chechen rebel fighters abandoned Grozny and set out for the ... Russian forces responded with further widespread arrests of Chechen males, ..."

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