seeker
nounEtymology
From Middle English sekar, sekere (also sechar, sechere), equivalent to seek + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Säiker (“seeker”), West Frisian syker (“seeker”), Dutch zoeker (“seeker”), German Low German Söker (“seeker”), German Sucher (“seeker”).
- inherited from sekar
Definitions
One who seeks.
Especially, a religious seeker
Especially, a religious seeker: a pilgrim, or one who aspires to enlightenment or salvation.
- But these seekers, too, are saved - by virtue of the inherited symbolic aids of society, the rites of passage, the grace-yielding sacraments, given to mankind of old by the redeemers and handed down through millenniums.
In Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, the player who is supposed to catch the snitch.
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A member of an English Protestant dissenting group that emerged around the 1620s
A member of an English Protestant dissenting group that emerged around the 1620s; they considered organised churches to be corrupt and preferred to wait for God's revelation.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for seeker. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA