seeker
/ˈsiːkə/ · noun
Meaning
- One who seeks.
- Especially, a religious seeker: a pilgrim, or one who aspires to enlightenment or salvation.
- In Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, the player who is supposed to catch the snitch.
- 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 / origin
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”).
- Sucher(German)→
- Söker(nds-de)→
- zoeker(Dutch)→
- syker(fy)→
- Säiker(stq)→
- sekar(enm)→
- seeker (English)
- Relations: inh, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog
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