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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈsiːkə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈsikɚ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-seeker.wav Forms: seekers [plural]
Rhymes: -iːkə(ɹ) 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”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|sekar}} Middle English sekar, {{affix|en|seek|-er|id2=agent noun}} seek + -er, {{cog|stq|Säiker|t=seeker}} Saterland Frisian Säiker (“seeker”), {{cog|fy|syker|t=seeker}} West Frisian syker (“seeker”), {{cog|nl|zoeker|t=seeker}} Dutch zoeker (“seeker”), {{cog|nds-de|Söker|t=seeker}} German Low German Söker (“seeker”), {{cog|de|Sucher|t=seeker}} German Sucher (“seeker”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} seeker (plural seekers)
  1. One who seeks. Translations (one who seeks): ζητητής (zētētḗs) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), търсач (tǎrsač) [masculine] (Bulgarian), hledač (Czech), uchazeč (Czech), zoeker [masculine] (Dutch), serĉisto (Esperanto), etsijä (Finnish), tavoittelija (Finnish), pyrkijä (Finnish), hakija (Finnish), demandeur (French), Suchender [masculine] (German), Sucher [masculine] (German), Sucherin [feminine] (German), 𐍃𐍉𐌺𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃 (sōkareis) [neuter] (Gothic), מחפש (mekhapés) [masculine] (Hebrew), sirtheoir [masculine] (Irish), ба́рач (bárač) [masculine] (Macedonian), ба́рател (báratel) [masculine] (Macedonian), тра́гач (trágač) [masculine] (Macedonian), søker (Norwegian), buscante (Portuguese), иска́тель (iskátelʹ) [masculine] (Russian), иска́тельница (iskátelʹnica) [feminine] (Russian), и́щущий (íščuščij) [masculine] (Russian), и́щущая (íščuščaja) [feminine] (Russian), tragač [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), iskalec [masculine] (Slovene), iskalka [feminine] (Slovene), buscador [masculine] (Spanish), buscante [feminine, masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-seeker-en-noun-WgB7fQ6u Disambiguation of 'one who seeks': 78 9 13
  2. Especially, a religious seeker: a pilgrim, or one who aspires to enlightenment or salvation. Categories (topical): Religion Translations (religious seeker): iskatelj [masculine] (Slovene), iskalka [feminine] (Slovene)
    Sense id: en-seeker-en-noun-tk~ZyDPu Disambiguation of Religion: 0 100 0 Disambiguation of 'religious seeker': 1 99 0
  3. In Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, the player who is supposed to to catch the snitch. Categories (topical): Harry Potter, People, Stock characters
    Sense id: en-seeker-en-noun-eT9Yqkug Disambiguation of Harry Potter: 8 8 84 Disambiguation of People: 18 32 50 Disambiguation of Stock characters: 20 8 72 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun), Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Ancient Greek translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Gothic translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Norwegian translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Slovene translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 11 61 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun): 27 13 60 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 28 12 60 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 26 7 67 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 27 11 62 Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 22 13 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 22 16 62 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 22 19 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 27 14 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 24 12 64 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 23 15 62 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 27 15 58 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 26 13 61 Disambiguation of Terms with Gothic translations: 18 11 71 Disambiguation of Terms with Hebrew translations: 18 15 67 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 21 14 64 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 24 16 60 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian translations: 23 15 62 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 24 15 60 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 27 13 61 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 24 15 61 Disambiguation of Terms with Slovene translations: 24 16 60 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 26 11 63
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 23:",
          "text": "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.",
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      "ipa": "/ˈsikɚ/",
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    "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Gothic translations",
    "Terms with Hebrew translations",
    "Terms with Irish translations",
    "Terms with Macedonian translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Slovene translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
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    "en:People",
    "en:Religion",
    "en:Stock characters"
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    {
      "word": "asylum seeker"
    },
    {
      "word": "attention seeker"
    },
    {
      "word": "boneseeker"
    },
    {
      "word": "fortune seeker"
    },
    {
      "word": "help-seeker"
    },
    {
      "word": "pleasure-seeker"
    },
    {
      "word": "rent-seeker"
    },
    {
      "word": "rosette seeker"
    },
    {
      "word": "self-seeker"
    },
    {
      "word": "thrill-seeker"
    },
    {
      "word": "truthseeker"
    }
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        "2": "enm",
        "3": "sekar"
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      "name": "inh"
    },
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      "args": {
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        "2": "seek",
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      },
      "expansion": "seek + -er",
      "name": "affix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "stq",
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        "t": "seeker"
      },
      "expansion": "Saterland Frisian Säiker (“seeker”)",
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    },
    {
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        "1": "fy",
        "2": "syker",
        "t": "seeker"
      },
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "zoeker",
        "t": "seeker"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch zoeker (“seeker”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nds-de",
        "2": "Söker",
        "t": "seeker"
      },
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    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Sucher",
        "t": "seeker"
      },
      "expansion": "German Sucher (“seeker”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "seeker (plural seekers)",
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    }
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    "seek‧er"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "One who seeks."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "seek",
          "seek"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 23:",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Especially, a religious seeker: a pilgrim, or one who aspires to enlightenment or salvation."
      ],
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        [
          "religious",
          "religious"
        ],
        [
          "pilgrim",
          "pilgrim"
        ],
        [
          "enlightenment",
          "enlightenment"
        ],
        [
          "salvation",
          "salvation"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "In Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, the player who is supposed to to catch the snitch."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Quidditch",
          "Quidditch"
        ],
        [
          "Muggle quidditch",
          "Muggle quidditch"
        ],
        [
          "player",
          "player"
        ],
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          "snitch",
          "snitch"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsiːkə/",
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        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
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      "ipa": "/ˈsikɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iːkə(ɹ)"
    }
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "tǎrsač",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "търсач"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "word": "hledač"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "word": "uchazeč"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zoeker"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "word": "serĉisto"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "word": "etsijä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "word": "tavoittelija"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "word": "pyrkijä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "word": "hakija"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "word": "demandeur"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Suchender"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Sucher"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Sucherin"
    },
    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "sōkareis",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "𐍃𐍉𐌺𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "zētētḗs",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ζητητής"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "mekhapés",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "מחפש"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sirtheoir"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "bárač",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ба́рач"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "báratel",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ба́рател"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "trágač",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "тра́гач"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "word": "søker"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "word": "buscante"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "iskátelʹ",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "иска́тель"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "iskátelʹnica",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "иска́тельница"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "íščuščij",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "и́щущий"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "íščuščaja",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "и́щущая"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tragač"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "iskalec"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "iskalka"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "buscador"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "one who seeks",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "buscante"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "religious seeker",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "iskatelj"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "religious seeker",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "iskalka"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "seeker"
  ],
  "word": "seeker"
}

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