zélote
French, noun\ze.lɔt\
zélote is spelled Z-É-L-O-T-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written French, the 139,724th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zélote is a French masculine noun meaning “zealot (member of the Zealot movement)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Membre d’une secte juive du Iᵉʳ siècle de notre ère qui combattait le pouvoir romain les armes à la main et…”.
What does zélote mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinezealot (member of the Zealot movement)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Membre d’une secte juive du Iᵉʳ siècle de notre ère qui combattait le pouvoir romain les armes à la main et pratiquait le terrorisme. 2. Fanatique, personne qui fait preuve d'un zèle excessif dans ses activités ou ses idées.
noun: 1. Araignée aranéomorphe de la famille des Gnaphosidae.
adjective: 1. Des zélotes, relatif aux zélotes. 2. Qui fait partie du mouvement des zélotes.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of zélote
- zélotes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce zélote?
- \ze.lɔt\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to zélote
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is zélote in French?
zélote appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).