Zaporozhian adjective 1noun 1forms 3 adjective1 •Of or relating to the Zaporozhians or their culture, etc.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 noun1 •(historical) One of the Cossacks who lived downstream of the rapids of the Dnieper/Dnipro River, in present-day Ukraine.As the Zaporozhians began to clash with the newcomers a number of Serb settlements were wiped out and the colonization came to a halt. — 2016 formsZaporozhians · more Zaporozhian · most Zaporozhian