seeker

See also: Seeker

English

Etymology

From Middle English sekar, sekere (also sechar, sechere), from Old English *sēċare, from Proto-West Germanic *sōkārī, from Proto-Germanic *sōkārijaz. Equivalent to seek +‎ -er.

Cognate with Dutch zoeker, German Sucher, German Low German Söker, Gothic 𐍃𐍉𐌺𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃 (sōkareis), Norwegian søker, Saterland Frisian Säiker, West Frisian syker, and Yiddish זוכער (zukher).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsiːkə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsikəɹ/
• Rhymes: -iːkə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: seek‧er

Noun

seeker (plural seekers)

1. One who seeks.
2. 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.

3. In Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, the player who is supposed to catch the snitch.

Derived terms

• asylum seeker
• attention seeker
• boneseeker
• careseeker
• comet-seeker
• fortune seeker
• gainseeker
• heatseeker
• help-seeker
• homeseeker
• jobseeker
• officeseeker
• pleasure-seeker
• quote-seeker
• rent-seeker
• rosette seeker
• self-seeker
• sunseeker
• thrill-seeker
• truthseeker
• workseeker

Translations

one who seeks

• Bulgarian: търсач (bg) m (tărsač)
• Czech: hledač, uchazeč (cs)
• Dutch: zoeker (nl) m
• Esperanto: serĉisto
• Finnish: etsijä (fi), tavoittelija (fi), pyrkijä (fi), hakija (fi)
• French: demandeur (fr)
• German: Suchender (de) m, Sucher (de) m, Sucherin f
• Gothic: 𐍃𐍉𐌺𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃 n (sōkareis)
• Greek: αναζητητής (el) m (anazititís)

  Ancient Greek: ζητητής m (zētētḗs)

• Hebrew: מחפש m (mekhapés)
• Hindi: साधक (hi) (sādhak), जिज्ञासु (jijñāsu)
• Irish: sirtheoir m
• Macedonian: ба́рач m (bárač), ба́рател m (báratel), тра́гач m (trágač)
• Norwegian: søker (no)
• Portuguese: buscante
• Russian: иска́тель (ru) m (iskátelʹ), иска́тельница (ru) f (iskátelʹnica), и́щущий (ru) m (íščuščij), и́щущая (ru) f (íščuščaja)
• Serbo-Croatian: tragač (sh) m
• Slovene: iskalec m, iskalka f
• Spanish: buscador (es) m, buscante m or f
• Yiddish: זוכער m (zukher)

religious seeker

• Slovene: iskatelj m, iskalka f

Anagrams

• Sèkèrè, reseek, Ersekë, kreese, sekere, sèkèrè