Usually means: Passionately devoted to a cause.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word zealot:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. zealot: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. zealot: Merriam-Webster
  3. Zealot, zealot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. zealot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. zealot: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Zealot, zealot: Vocabulary.com
  7. Zealot, zealot: Wordnik
  8. zealot: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. zealot: Wiktionary
  10. zealot: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. zealot: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. zealot: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. zealot: Dictionary.com
  14. zealot: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. The Zealot, Zealot (Judaism), Zealot (book), Zealot (disambiguation), Zealot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Zealot: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. zealot: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Zealot: Rhymezone
  19. zealot: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. zealot: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. zealot: FreeDictionary.org
  22. zealot: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. zealot: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. zealot: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. zealot: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

(Note: See zealots as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (historical) A member of an anti-aristocratic political group in Thessalonica from 1342 until 1350.
noun:  (history) Alternative letter-case form of 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.]

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