seek

Meanings

Verb

• To try to find; to look for; to search for.
• To ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
• To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
• To go, move, travel (in a given direction).
• To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
• To attempt, endeavour, try
• To navigate through a stream.

Noun

• The operation of navigating through a stream.

Related

Similar words

• look for
• search

Origin

• From Middle English seken (also sechen, whence dialectal English seech), from Old English sēċan, with influence from Old Norse sœkja, whence the hard sound (compare beseech); both from Proto-Germanic *sōkijaną ("to seek"), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- ("to seek out"). Cognate with West Frisian sykje, Dutch zoeken, Low German söken, German suchen, Danish søge, Icelandic sækja, Norwegian Bokmål søke, Norwegian Nynorsk søkja, Swedish söka.