Usually means: Attempt to find or obtain.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word seek:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. seek: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. seek: Merriam-Webster
  3. seek: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. seek: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. seek: Collins English Dictionary
  6. seek: Vocabulary.com
  7. Seek, seek: Wordnik
  8. seek: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. seek: Wiktionary
  10. seek: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. seek: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. seek: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. seek: Dictionary.com
  14. seek: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. seek: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Seek (NCIS), Seek: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Seek: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. seek: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. seek: Rhymezone
  20. seek: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. seek: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. seek: FreeDictionary.org
  23. seek: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. seek: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. seek: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. seek: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. seek: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. seek: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. seek: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SEEK: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. seek: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. seek: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. SEEK: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (ambitransitive) To try to find; to look for; to search for.
verb:  (transitive) To ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
verb:  (transitive) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To go, move, travel (in a given direction).
verb:  (transitive) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
verb:  (intransitive, sometimes proscribed) To attempt, endeavour, try
verb:  (intransitive, computing) To navigate through a stream.
noun:  (computing) The operation of navigating through a stream.
noun:  A surname from German.
noun:  Obsolete form of Sikh. [An adherent of Sikhism.]

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