seeker
Substantivin Dialogen belegt
- Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈsiːkə//
- Vereinigte Staaten//ˈsikəɹ//
One who seeks.
Substantiv
- 1
One who seeks.
- 2
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.
Herkunft
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”).
Formen
- Plural
- seekers