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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Seeker \Seek"er\, noun
1. One who seeks; that which is used in seeking or searching.
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.
A skeptic [is] ever seeking and never finds, like our new upstart sect of Seekers. --Bullokar.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
seeker
noun
1: someone making a search or inquiry; "they are seekers after truth" [syn: {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)
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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