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Seeker

//ˈsiːkə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who seeks.
  2. 2
    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. historical
  3. 3
    a missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves) wordnet
  4. 4
    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."

  5. 5
    someone making a search or inquiry wordnet
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  1. 6
    In Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, the player who is supposed to catch the snitch.

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”).

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