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noun (plural zealots)
- 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
- a member of the Zealot movement
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| Zion |
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proper noun
- A mountain in Israel upon which Jerusalem is built.
- Jerusalem itself.
- Metaphoric for the whole nation of Israel.
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| Zionism |
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proper noun
- The Jewish national liberation movement which maintains that the Jewish people constitute a nation and are entitled their national homeland.
- A religion practiced by people all over sub-Saharan Africa and is most popular in Swaziland. The religion is a mixture of Protestantism and Animism.
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| Zohar |
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noun
- A Jewish cabalistic book attributed by tradition to Rabbi Simon ben Yochi, who lived about the end of the 1st century AD. Modern critics believe it to be a compilation of the 13th century.
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