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# zealous

«zealous» in Mova's school dictionary: **Very eager and hard-working in doing something, often out…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Very eager and hard-working in doing something, often out of loyalty or belief. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zealous/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old stories, faithful and keen servants or followers who carry out tasks with great care

### examples

- The zealous servants cleaned the palace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zealous/#x1)
- He was a zealous helper of the king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zealous/#x2)
- Zealous children tidied the room before the guests came. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zealous/#x3)
- Her zealous followers set off at dawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zealous/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «zealous» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zealous/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.