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Princeton's WordNet

  1. seeker, searcher, questernoun

    someone making a search or inquiry

    "they are seekers after truth"

  2. searchernoun

    a customs official whose job is to search baggage or goods or vehicles for contraband or dutiable items

  3. searcher, searcher beetle, Calosoma scrutatornoun

    large metallic blue-green beetle that preys on caterpillars; found in North America

Wiktionary

  1. searchernoun

    One who searches.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Searchernoun

    Etymology: from search.

    The Agarenes that seek wisdom upon earth, the authors of fables, and searchers out of understanding. Bar. iii. 23.

    The searchers found a marvellous difference between the Anakins and themselves. Walter Raleigh.

    Religion has given us a more just idea of the divine nature: he whom we appeal to is truth itself, the great searcher of hearts, who will not let fraud go unpunished, or hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Addison.

    In vain we lift up our presumptuous eyes
    To what our Maker to their ken denies:
    The searcher follows fast; the object flies. Matthew Prior.

    Avoid the man who practises any thing unbecoming a free and open searcher after truth. Isaac Watts.

    The searchers, who are ancient matrons sworn to their office, repair to the place where the dead corps lies, and by view of the same, and by other inquiries, examine by what disease the corps died. John Graunt, Bills of Mortality.

ChatGPT

  1. searcher

    A searcher is an individual or tool that actively seeks information or looks for something or someone by investigating, examining or exploring. This term can apply to various contexts such as a person looking for physical items, a researcher looking for data, or a software program designed to find digital files or internet content.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Searchernoun

    one who, or that which, searhes or examines; a seeker; an inquirer; an examiner; a trier

  2. Searchernoun

    formerly, an officer in London appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of death

  3. Searchernoun

    an officer of the customs whose business it is to search ships, merchandise, luggage, etc

  4. Searchernoun

    an inspector of leather

  5. Searchernoun

    an instrument for examining the bore of a cannon, to detect cavities

  6. Searchernoun

    an implement for sampling butter; a butter trier

  7. Searchernoun

    an instrument for feeling after calculi in the bladder, etc

  8. Etymology: [Cf. OF. cercheor inspector.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. searcher

    A custom-house officer employed in taking an account of goods to be exported. Also, see GUN-SEARCHER.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. searcher

    See Inspection of Cannon.

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  1. research

  2. re-search

  3. rechaser

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of searcher in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of searcher in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of searcher in a Sentence

  1. Seneca:

    I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

  2. Morgan Neville:

    The way I came to think of it is: Tony was an ultimate searcher and a seeker, but if you are really always seeking and always curious, then you can get lost. He had this tattoo that he got late in life that said in Greek ‘I am certain of nothing.’ That sounds very Zen, but it’s also a little sad.

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