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seek·er

(sē′kər)

1. One that seeks: a seeker of the truth.

2. A device used in a moving object, especially a missile, that locates a target by detecting light, heat, or other radiation.

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Noun	1.	seeker - someone making a search or inquiry; "they are seekers after truth" quester, searcher individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" finder - someone who comes upon something after searching gadabout - a restless seeker after amusement or social companionship hunter - a person who searches for something; "a treasure hunter"
	2.	seeker - a missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves) projectile, missile - a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled

seeker

noun

A person who applies for or seeks something, such as a job or position:

applicant, aspirant, candidate, hopeful, petitioner.

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seeker

[ˈsiːkəʳ] N → buscador(a) m/f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

seeker

n → Suchende(r) mf; (= pursuer) → Verfolger(in) m(f); to be a seeker of knowledge → auf der Suche nach Wissen or Erkenntnis sein; seeker of or after truth → Wahrheitssucher(in) m(f)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

seeker

[ˈsiːkəʳ] n → cercatore/trice

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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AN Office Seeker whom the President had ordered out of Washington was watering the homeward highway with his tears.

"My friend," said the Office Seeker, "you see before you the wreck of an ambitious man - ruined by the pursuit of place and power.

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All who visited that region knew him as the Seeker, and by no other name.

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'How enjoy it!' exclaimed the aged Seeker, bitterly.

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With bated breath and beating heart he moved toward the Rhetor (by which name the brother who prepared a seeker for entrance into the Brotherhood was known).

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Thus only shall you find your pearl, O seeker of the Golden Girl!

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It is human nature, after all, that is the most interesting thing in the world, and it only reveals itself to the truly earnest seeker. There is a want of earnestness in that life of hotels and railroad trains, which so many of our countrymen are content to lead in this strange Old World, and I was distressed to find how far I, myself; had been led along the dusty, beaten track.

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"You have not the appearance of a pleasure seeker," she answered.

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In all the different representations of Socrates, whether of Xenophon or Plato, and the differences of the earlier or later Dialogues, he always retains the character of the unwearied and disinterested seeker after truth, without which he would have ceased to be Socrates.

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A curious seeker, she stood for a while at the verge of the sea that tells so little, but tells a little, and watched the outgoing of this last tremendous tide.

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And because they were philosophers and seekers after the beauty that underlies the form of things, they made the picture express its own significance, and every song find echo in the souls of those that heard.

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The Aurora was the first steamboat of the year for the Outside, and her decks were jammed with prosperous adventurers and broken gold seekers, all equally as mad to get to the Outside as they had been originally to get to the Inside.