seeker
[see-ker]
- 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
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Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018
Related Words
claimant, candidate, hopeful, petitioner, suppliant, suitor, inquirer, aspirant, postulant, appellantExamples from the Web for seeker
Contemporary Examples
Cooper has distanced herself from the widely panned 2007 movie adaptation, The Seeker.
Once there, he did everything he could to disrupt the game while the seeker tried to grab the snitch.
From J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Novels to Real Life: The Sport of Quidditch Takes FlightJace Lacob
March 14, 2012
Assange is a maker of mischief and a seeker of publicity, exposing confidential material because he can.
To its defenders, WND is a seeker of conservative truth in a liberal mainstream media world.
The seeker churches are so seeker-friendly that nobody ever finds anything.
Historical Examples
A seeker for omens might have said that the heavens were weeping over our ill-fated venture.
Micah ClarkeArthur Conan Doyle
It was the library of a seeker after the encyclopædic culture of the Germany of his day.
Dreamers of the GhettoI. Zangwill
Again we can only say that the seeker would be disappointed.
Sex=The Unknown QuantityAli Nomad
So in the fashion of those days he became a seeker after truth.
The Soul of a PeopleH. Fielding
I was, too, a seeker of curious experience, and this was to prove my undoing.
The Trail of '98Robert W. Service
Word Origin and History for seeker
n.
early 14c., agent noun from seek. The religious sect of the Seekers is attested from 1645.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper