Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that seeks.
- noun A device used in a moving object, especially a missile, that locates a target by detecting light, heat, or other radiation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who seeks; an inquirer: as, a seeker after truth.
- noun One who applies or resorts: with to.
- noun A searcher.
- noun [capitalized] One of a sect in the time of Cromwell which professed no determinate religion, but claimed to be in search of the true church, ministry, sacraments, and Scriptures.
- noun In anatomy, same as
tracer .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who seeks; that which is used in seeking or searching.
- noun (Eccl.) One of a small heterogeneous sect of the 17th century, in Great Britain, who professed to be seeking the true church, ministry, and sacraments.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
seeks . - noun Especially, a religious seeker: a
pilgrim , or one who aspires toenlightenment ,Nirvana ,Salvation , or God Realization
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves)
- noun someone making a search or inquiry
Etymologies
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Examples
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I guess I generally use the term seeker to describe myself.
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Being a seeker is a vocation, a job God calls some of us to do, like an artist, a doctor, a teacher … or a nun.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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Being a seeker is a vocation, a job God calls some of us to do, like an artist, a doctor, a teacher … or a nun.
A seeker 2009
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So don’t throw the term seeker around until you actually spend sometime looking for yourself.
Don't teach ID -- at least not until our textbook is published - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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The eternal seeker is likewise for everyone and lets you get some powers from other classes.
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Foyle's transformation from common man to revenge-seeker is fairly quick but entirely believable.
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So the problem is, in times when a job seeker is qualified to be a judge of relative merit, it would generally be in their field and thus they would be judging potential competitors to themselves, so they are given a powerful incentive to lie and surface the weaker person.
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We all have secrets and watching someone try to hide and shield themselves from the truth seeker is interesting and dramatic and we always want to peep in and see how that?
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Sam says the person in the chatroom used the name seeker, and asks if it means something to her?
Fulldls.com 2008
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I have put in italics in the text clearly show the "seeker" - attitude.
Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905
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