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seeker

[ see-ker ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that seeks.
  2. Rocketry.
    1. a device in a missile that locates a target by sensing some characteristic of the target, as heat emission.
    2. a missile equipped with such a device.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of seeker1

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; seek, -er 1

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Example Sentences

What Andra and her employees experienced is how it should be for every employer—and every job seeker.

He was an adventurer and thrill seeker, but also an ardent radical socialist.

Cooper has distanced herself from the widely panned 2007 movie adaptation, The Seeker.

But Booker is no longer just a spiritual seeker looking for community in unusual places.

He left the Navy four years ago, said Quigley, who described her brother as “an adventure seeker.”

He is quite a politician, though he has never been an office-seeker or an office-holder.

The experiments which the indefatigable seeker had undertaken on atmospheric electricity interested her as much as they did him.

The incident of the photographic seeker before the Statue of Liberty upset me.

We are all alike and yet all different; each of us is a wanderer, a brooder, a seeker.

He is usually regarded as a bona fide seeker for work, and food is readily given him for the asking.

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