seeker

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
seeker
    n 1: someone making a search or inquiry; "they are seekers after
         truth" [syn: {seeker}, {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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Seeker \Seek"er\, n.
   1. One who seeks; that which is used in seeking or searching.
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   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.
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            A skeptic [is] ever seeking and never finds, like
            our new upstart sect of Seekers.      --Bullokar.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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