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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of seeker¹

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

Example Sentences

I also trawl the websites of private hospitals and pharmacies that offer the vaccine, wasting endless hours as they crash from the load of thousands of other vaccine seekers.

From Washington Post

At the Kino Border Initiative in Nogales, Sonara, Stephanie learned about the program that matches asylum seekers with American host families.

From Washington Post

That’s why I like to check in with former advice seekers to see how they’ve overcome their obstacles, faced their fears and moved on to better things.

From Washington Post

In the Florida Keys, lobster seekers frequently find spider crabs under rock ledges and reefs.

From Popular-Science

Also harshly affected are workers in the informal sector, migrant workers, refugees and asylum seekers.

From No Straight News

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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