seeker

nounattested in dialogue

United Kingdom//ˈsiːkə//
United States//ˈsikəɹ//

One who seeks.

noun

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.

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”).

Forms

plural: seekers

seeing · Having vision; not blind.seek · To try to find; to look for; to search for.Seek · A surname from German.

seeker · One who seeks.

Seeker · A member of an English Protestant dissenting group that…seeking · The act of one who seeks; a search or quest to find something.seem · To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.

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