self-seeker

English

Alternative forms

• selfseeker

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *swé?

Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.

Proto-Germanic *selbaz

Old English self

Old English self-

Middle English self-

English self-

English seeker

English self-seeker

From self- + seeker.

Noun

self-seeker (plural self-seekers)

1. A self-seeking person.
   • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 232:

     'They are all self-seekers - every one.'

Translations

a self-seeking person

• Finnish: oman edun tavoittelija
• French: égocentrique (fr) m or f
• Macedonian: се́бичник m (sébičnik)
• Polish: samolub (pl) m, samolubka f
• Russian: рвач (ru) m (rvač), шку́рник (ru) m (škúrnik), своекоры́стный челове́к m (svojekorýstnyj čelovék)
• Turkish: çıkarcı (tr)