seeker
Americannoun
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a person or thing that seeks.
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Rocketry.
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a device in a missile that locates a target by sensing some characteristic of the target, as heat emission.
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a missile equipped with such a device.
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Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of seeker
Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; see origin at seek, -er 1
Example Sentences
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That it hasn’t seems ironic, given that the Christian ideal of Jesus is in both word and deed a seeker of justice.
From Salon • Jun. 20, 2026
One job seeker put it bluntly: “I became invisible when I turned 60.”
From MarketWatch • Jun. 19, 2026
“If that’s true, a job seeker open to those opportunities may face less competition simply because they’re considering roles others have ruled out,” he said.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
It takes Fatima Bio only a moment to respond when we ask what it was like to be an asylum seeker in London.
From BBC • May 17, 2026
He was not a splitter, but a lumper, a seeker of deeper anatomy.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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