seeker

[ see-ker ]

/ ˈsi kər /

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noun

a person or thing that seeks.

Rocketry.

a device in a missile that locates a target by sensing some characteristic of the target, as heat emission.
a missile equipped with such a device.

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Origin of seeker

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; see origin at seek, -er¹

Words nearby seeker

Seeing is believing, seeing that, seeing things, see into, seek, seeker, Seekonk, seek out, seel, Seeland, seelie

How to use seeker in a sentence

I also trawl the websites of private hospitals and pharmacies that offer the vaccine, wasting endless hours as they crash from the load of thousands of other vaccine seekers.
Getting a coronavirus vaccine appointment fills me with despair. Every search ends in frustration, and I’m at a low point of a long, dark year.|Marlene Cimons|February 5, 2021|Washington Post
At the Kino Border Initiative in Nogales, Sonara, Stephanie learned about the program that matches asylum seekers with American host families.
A Maryland couple opened their home to a Honduran mother and son. They ended up sharing more than space.|Stephanie García|January 30, 2021|Washington Post
That’s why I like to check in with former advice seekers to see how they’ve overcome their obstacles, faced their fears and moved on to better things.
The covid-era workplace: Hard questions, no easy answers|Karla Miller|December 17, 2020|Washington Post
In the Florida Keys, lobster seekers frequently find spider crabs under rock ledges and reefs.
14 wild edibles you can pull right out of the ocean|By Bob McNally/Field & Stream|October 19, 2020|Popular-Science

Also harshly affected are workers in the informal sector, migrant workers, refugees and asylum seekers.
Why Human Rights Should Guide Responses To The Global Pandemic|LGBTQ-Editor|October 7, 2020|No Straight News
What Andra and her employees experienced is how it should be for every employer—and every job seeker.
Full Text of President Obama’s 2014 State of the Union Address||January 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He was an adventurer and thrill seeker, but also an ardent radical socialist.
This Week’s Hot Reads: Sept. 30, 2013|Thomas Flynn, Jimmy So|September 30, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Cooper has distanced herself from the widely panned 2007 movie adaptation, The Seeker.
She Who Came After Tolkien, Before Rowling|John Garth|August 31, 2013|DAILY BEAST
But Booker is no longer just a spiritual seeker looking for community in unusual places.
Cory Booker’s Rabbis|Peter Beinart|June 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST
He left the Navy four years ago, said Quigley, who described her brother as “an adventure seeker.”
Victims of the Libyan Consulate Attack|Matthew DeLuca|September 13, 2012|DAILY BEAST
He is quite a politician, though he has never been an office-seeker or an office-holder.
Portrait and Biography of Parson Brownlow, The Tennessee Patriot|William Gannaway Brownlow
The experiments which the indefatigable seeker had undertaken on atmospheric electricity interested her as much as they did him.
Urania|Camille Flammarion
The incident of the photographic seeker before the Statue of Liberty upset me.
My Wonderful Visit|Charlie Chaplin
We are all alike and yet all different; each of us is a wanderer, a brooder, a seeker.
The New Society|Walther Rathenau
He is usually regarded as a bona fide seeker for work, and food is readily given him for the asking.
Tramping on Life|Harry Kemp

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