gold seeker

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who searches or prospects for gold, especially someone drawn to a gold-rush region

   Thousands of gold seekers crossed the mountain passes hoping to reach the Klondike fields.

A compound of gold and seeker. Gold descends from Old English gold and Proto-Germanic *gultha; seeker is the agent noun of seek, from Old English secan, 'to seek or go in search of.' The open spelling gold seeker is the modern dictionary form, while gold-seeker and the historical closed form goldseeker are also attested.

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