Seeker
noun1
Christianity Historical 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.
- Derived terms
- Seekerism
seeker
nounalso spelled SeekerUK /ˈsiːkə/ · US /ˈsikəɹ/
Etymology 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”).
1
One who seeks.
2
Especially, a religious seeker: a pilgrim, or one who aspires to enlightenment or salvation.
- 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.1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 23:
3
In Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, the player who is supposed to catch the snitch.
- Derived terms
- asylum seeker, attention seeker, boneseeker, careseeker, comet-seeker, fortune seeker, gainseeker, heatseeker, help-seeker, homeseeker, jobseeker, officeseeker, pleasure-seeker, quote-seeker, rent-seeker, rosette seeker, self-seeker, sunseeker, thrill-seeker, truthseeker, workseeker