SEARCHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does searcher mean? 

• SEARCHER (noun)
  The noun SEARCHER has 3 senses:

1. someone making a search or inquiry

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

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

  Familiarity information: SEARCHER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEARCHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone making a search or inquiry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

quester; searcher; seeker

Context example:

they are seekers after truth

Hypernyms ("searcher" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "searcher"):

finder (someone who comes upon something after searching)

gadabout (a restless seeker after amusement or social companionship)

hunter (a person who searches for something)

Derivation:

search (inquire into)

search (try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of)

search (subject to a search)

search (search or seek)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("searcher" is a kind of...):

functionary; official (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)

Derivation:

search (try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of)

search (subject to a search)

search (search or seek)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Calosoma scrutator; searcher; searcher beetle

Hypernyms ("searcher" is a kind of...):

calosoma (any beetle of the genus Calosoma)

 Context examples 

Next, in the course of their review of the chamber, the searchers came to the cheval-glass, into whose depths they looked with an involuntary horror.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

As it chanced, however, the searchers had not far to seek.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I kept, among other little necessaries, a pair of spectacles in a private pocket, which, as I observed before, had escaped the emperor’s searchers.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

When we reached Scotland Yard she was handed over at once to the female searcher.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As long as the criminal remains upon two legs so long must there be some indentation, some abrasion, some trifling displacement which can be detected by the scientific searcher.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then he pushed him in head first, tied up the sack, and soon swung up the searcher after wisdom dangling in the air.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

'Apparently the age of romance was not dead, and there was common ground upon which the wildest imaginings of the novelist could meet the actual scientific investigations of the searcher for truth. He would only add, before he sat down, that he rejoiced—and all of them would rejoice—that these gentlemen had returned safe and sound from their difficult and dangerous task, for it cannot be denied that any disaster to such an expedition would have inflicted a well-nigh irreparable loss to the cause of Zoological science.'

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the left pocket we saw a huge silver chest, with a cover of the same metal, which we, the searchers, were not able to lift.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)