seeker

noun
/ˈsiːkə/UK/ˈsikəɹ/US

Etymology

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”).

  1. inherited from sekar

Definitions

  1. One who seeks.

  2. 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.
  3. In Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, the player who is supposed to catch the snitch.

  4. + 1 more definition
    1. 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

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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