seeker

See also: Seeker

English

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”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsiːkə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsikɚ/
• Rhymes: -iːkə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: seek‧er

Noun

seeker (plural seekers)

1. One who seeks.
2. Especially, a religious seeker: a pilgrim, or one who aspires to enlightenment or salvation.
   • 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 23:

     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 to catch the snitch.

Derived terms

• asylum seeker
• attention seeker
• boneseeker
• fortune seeker
• help-seeker
• pleasure-seeker
• rent-seeker
• rosette seeker
• self-seeker
• thrill-seeker
• truthseeker

 

Translations

one who seeks

• Bulgarian: търсач (bg) m (tǎrsač)
• Czech: hledač, uchazeč (cs)
• Dutch: zoeker (nl) m
• Esperanto: serĉisto
• Finnish: etsijä (fi), tavoittelija (fi), pyrkijä (fi), hakija (fi)
• French: demandeur (fr)
• German: Suchender (de) m, Sucher (de) m, Sucherin f
• Gothic: 𐍃𐍉𐌺𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃 n (sōkareis)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ζητητής m (zētētḗs)

• Hebrew: מחפש m (mekhapés)
• Irish: sirtheoir m
• Macedonian: ба́рач m (bárač), ба́рател m (báratel), тра́гач m (trágač)
• Norwegian: søker (no)
• Portuguese: buscante
• Russian: иска́тель (ru) m (iskátelʹ), иска́тельница (ru) f (iskátelʹnica), и́щущий (ru) m (íščuščij), и́щущая (ru) f (íščuščaja)
• Serbo-Croatian: tragač (sh) m
• Slovene: iskalec m, iskalka f
• Spanish: buscador (es) m, buscante m or f

religious seeker

• Slovene: iskatelj m, iskalka f

Anagrams

• Sèkèrè, reseek, Ersekë, kreese, sekere, sèkèrè