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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To try to locate or discover; search for.
  2. v. To endeavor to obtain or reach: seek a college education.
  3. v. To go to or toward: Water seeks its own level.
  4. v. To inquire for; request: seek directions from a police officer.
  5. v. To try; endeavor: seek to do good.
  6. v. Obsolete To explore.
  7. v. To make a search or investigation: Seek and you will find.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To go in search or quest of; look or search for; endeavor to find: often followed by out.
  2. To inquire for; ask for; solicit; desire or try to obtain.
  3. To go to; resort to; have recourse to.
  4. To aim at; pursue as an object; strive after; attempt: as, to seek a person's life or his ruin.
  5. To try; endeavor: with an infinitive object.
  6. To search; search through.
  7. To look at; consult.
  8. To go; proceed; resort; have recourse; apply: with to.
  9. To search, or make search or inquiry.
  10. (b ) At a loss; without knowledge, experience, or resources; helpless: used adjectively, usually with be.
  11. A Middle English form of sick.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To try to find, to look for, to search.
  2. v. transitive To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
  3. v. transitive To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
  4. v. intransitive, obsolete To go, move, travel (in a given direction).

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. obsolete Sick.
  2. v. To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find.
  3. v. To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
  4. v. To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
  5. v. To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
  6. v. To make search or inquiry; to endeavor to make discovery.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. go to or towards
  2. v. inquire for
  3. v. make an effort or attempt
  4. n. the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk
  5. v. try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of
  6. v. try to get or reach

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English seken (also sechen), from Old English sēċan ("to seek; try to find, to look for, make search for; try to get; strive to effect, aim at, strive after; seek after, try to provide for; try to find out by investigation or examination; enquire about; try to learn by asking, ask, ask for, inquire; look to for, expect from; visit, go to; resort to; go, move, proceed; approach, attain to; attack, pursue, follow"), with influence from Old Norse sœkja, whence the hard /k/ sound (compare beseech); both from Proto-Germanic *sōkijanan (“to seek”) (compare West Frisian sykje, Dutch zoeken, German suchen, Danish søge). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- (“to seek out”). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English sechen, seken, from Old English sēcan. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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