Complete Definition of "zealot"

English

Pronunciation
Wiktionary:Pronunciation_key|IPA: /�z�l�t/ (plural /�z�l�ts/)

Noun
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zealot (plural zealots)

  1. one who is zealous, one who is full of zeal for his own specific beliefs or objectives, usually in the negative sense of being too passionate; a fanatic
  2. a member of the Zealot movement

Quotations
1733: For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight; / His can't be wrong whose life is in the right — Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle III, 1733

Translations
trans-top|zealous person
Chinese: ���
Finnish: hihhuli, kiihkoilija, uskonkiihkoilija
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trans-top|member of the Zealot movement
Finnish: selootti
Hungarian: zelóta
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Category:Greek derivations

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