seeker
/ˈsikəɹ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.41 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who seeks.
noun
Especially, a religious seeker: a pilgrim, or one who aspires to enlightenment or salvation.
noun
In Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, the player who is supposed to catch the snitch.
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.
Example Sentences
- "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."
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).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsikəɹ/
- British English: /ˈsiːkə/
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Religion.