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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BIG'OT, n.
1. A person who is obstinately and unreasonably wedded to a particular religious creed, opinion, practice or ritual. The word is sometimes used in an enlarged sense, for a person who is illiberally attached to any opinion, or system of belief; as a bigot to the Mohammedan religion; a bigot to a form of government.
2. A venetian liquid measure containing the fourth part of the amphor, or half the boot.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French, hypocrite, bigot Date: 1660 a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance • bigoted adjective • bigotedly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. an obstinate and intolerant believer in a religion, political theory, etc. Derivatives: bigotry n. Etymology: 16th c. f. F: orig. unkn.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bigot Big"ot, a. Bigoted. [Obs.] In a country more bigot than ours. --Dryden.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bigot Big"ot, n. [F. bigot a bigot or hypocrite, a name once given to the Normans in France. Of unknown origin; possibly akin to Sp. bigote a whisker; hombre de bigote a man of spirit and vigor; cf. It. s-bigottire to terrify, to appall. Wedgwood and others maintain that bigot is from the same source as Beguine, Beghard.] 1. A hypocrite; esp., a superstitious hypocrite. [Obs.] 2. A person who regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked. In an extended sense, a person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion. To doubt, where bigots had been content to wonder and believe. --Macaulay.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(bigots) If you describe someone as a bigot, you mean that they are bigoted. N-COUNT [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Zealot, fanatic, dogmatist.

Moby Thesaurus

Anglophobe, Russophobe, approver, ass, bitter-ender, bug, bullethead, chauvinist, diehard, doctrinaire, dogmatist, dogmatizer, donkey, fanatic, fiend, freak, hardnose, hater, illiberal, infallibilist, intolerant, intransigeant, intransigent, jingo, last-ditcher, male chauvinist, man-hater, maniac, maverick, misanthrope, misanthropist, misogynist, mule, nut, opinionist, perverse fool, pig, pighead, positivist, purist, racist, sexist, standpat, standpatter, stickler, superpatriot, ultranationalist, woman-hater, xenophobe, zealot