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SEEKER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does seeker mean?
• SEEKER (noun)
The noun SEEKER has 2 senses:
1. someone making a search or inquiry
2. a missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves)
Familiarity information: SEEKER used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone making a search or inquiry
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Context example:
they are seekers after truth
Hypernyms ("seeker" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "seeker"):
finder (someone who comes upon something after searching)
gadabout (a restless seeker after amusement or social companionship)
hunter (a person who searches for something)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("seeker" is a kind of...):
missile; projectile (a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled)
Context examples
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.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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