seeker
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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/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsikɚ/
- Rhymes: -iːkə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: seek‧er
Noun
seeker (plural seekers)
- One who seeks.
- 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.
- In Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, the player who is supposed to to catch the snitch.
Derived terms
Translations
one who seeks
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