- a person who shows zeal.
- an excessively zealous person; fanatic.
- a member of a radical, warlike, ardently patriotic group of Jews in Judea, particularly prominent from a.d. 69 to 81, advocating the violent overthrow of Roman rule and vigorously resisting the efforts of the Romans and their supporters to heathenize the Jews.
- an immoderate, fanatical, or extremely zealous adherent to a cause, esp a religious one
- any of the members of an extreme Jewish sect or political party that resisted all aspects of Roman rule in Palestine in the 1st century ad
