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Meaning of amanat | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
æməˈnɑːt

Definitions

A Native American hostage taken by Russian colonists.

historical

Examples

“Kuznetsov — his Aleut name is unknown — had been given to Russian fur traders as an amanat (hostage).”
“According to Davydov (1812, 2:54, 132), the chief of the Ugalakhmiut Eyak specially came to Kodiak for a meeting with his son, who was an amanat among the Russians.”
“Toion Fedor accepted Orthodoxy in the winter of 1795–96 when he lived at Kodiak as an amanat.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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