zélote — meaning in English
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English meaning
- enthusiast noun A person who is very keen and passionate about a particular subject or activity.
- zealot noun Someone so committed to a cause or belief that they pursue it with extreme, often unreasonable intensity.
Senses
zélote is used for these senses in English:
- enthusiast (archaic) A person exhibiting over-zealous religious fervour.
- zealot One who is zealous, one who is full of zeal for their own specific beliefs or objectives, usually in the negative sense of being too passionate; a fanatic.
- zealot (historical, Judaism) A member of a radical, warlike, ardently patriotic group of Jews in Judea, particularly prominent in the first century, who advocated the violent overthrow of Roman rule and vigorously resisted the efforts of the Romans and their supporters to convert the Jews.
zealot — full definition
- noun Someone so committed to a cause or belief that they pursue it with extreme, often unreasonable intensity.
- noun Historically, a member of a Jewish political movement in first-century Judea that violently resisted Roman rule.