1.
[syn: seeker, searcher, quester]
2. a missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves);
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Seeker \Seek"er\, n.
1. One who seeks; that which is used in seeking or searching.
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2. (Eccl.) One of a small heterogeneous sect of the 17th
century, in Great Britain, who professed to be seeking the
true church, ministry, and sacraments.
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A skeptic [is] ever seeking and never finds, like
our new upstart sect of Seekers. --Bullokar.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
seeker
n 1: someone making a search or inquiry; "they are seekers after
truth" [syn: seeker, searcher, quester]
2: a missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward
some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves)
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
29 Moby Thesaurus words for "seeker":
applicant, aspirant, bidder, candidate, chaser, claimant, delver,
digger, follower, hopeful, hunter, perquisitor, petitioner,
postulant, pursuant, pursuer, quester, ransacker, research worker,
researcher, researchist, rummager, searcher, solicitant, solicitor,
suitor, suppliant, supplicant, zetetic