Home › Words › Z › zaporozhianzaporozhianzaporozhian means of or relating to the Zaporozhians or their culture, etc.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, zaporozhian ranks #27,061 of 42,749 for Qualifying.EtymologyUltimately from Russian Запоро́жье (Zaporóžʹje, “place beyond the rapids”) or a related term; compare Zaporizhian, Zaporizhzhia.adjOf or relating to the Zaporozhians or their culture, etc.e.g.“Then, too, towards the middle of the eighteenth century both the Russian government and the Zaporozhian nobility began to use all means to attract settlers to the Southern Ukraine.” — 1955, Annals, Volumes 14-20, Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States, page 2:nounOne of the Cossacks who lived downstream of the rapids of the Dnieper/Dnipro River, in present-day Ukraine.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.zaporogue 81% match — A Zaporozhian Cossack. vs zaporozhian →zaporizhian 74% match — Of, from or relating to the city or oblast of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. vs zaporozhian →cossack 57% match — A member or descendant of an originally (semi-)nomadic population of Eastern Europe and the adjacent parts of Asia, formed in part of runaways from neighbouring countries, that eventually settled in parts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Russian tsarist Empire and constituted a military caste, particularly in areas now comprising southern Russia and Ukraine. vs zaporozhian →żupan 54% match — A long lined garment of West or Central Asian origin which was widely worn by noblemen in the multiethnic Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and by the Ukrainian Cossacks in the Cossack Hetmanate. vs zaporozhian →ukrop 52% match — A Ukrainian person. vs zaporozhian →cossackry 52% match — Cossacks considered collectively and as a distinct group. vs zaporozhian →dniprianyn 52% match — native male resident of Dnipro vs zaporozhian →dniprianka 50% match — native female resident of Dnipro vs zaporozhian →