seeker

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   someone making a search or inquiry

   they are seekers after truth

2. 2
   noun

   Especially, a religious seeker: a pilgrim, or one who aspires to enlightenment or salvation.

   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. 3
   noun

   a missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves)

4. 4
   noun

   One who seeks.

5. 5
   noun

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

6. 6
   noun

   A member of an English Protestant dissenting group that emerged around the 1620s; they considered organised churches to be corrupt and preferred to wait for God's revelation.

Etymology

From Middle English sekar, sekere (also sechar, sechere), equivalent to seek + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Säiker (“seeker”), West Frisian syker (“seeker”), Dutch zoeker (“seeker”), German Low German Söker (“seeker”), German Sucher (“seeker”).