/kwɛst/
OriginFrom Middle English quest, queste; partly from Anglo-Norman queste, Old French queste (“acquisition, search, hunt”), and partly from their source, Latin quaesta (“tribute, tax, inquiry, search”), noun use of quaesita, the feminine past participle of quaerere (“to ask, seek”).
- A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
“the hero's quest”
“Cease your quest of love.”
“Everything I have done pales in comparison to what I am about to achieve. I am on a quest... a quest for the most revered icon in Klingon history. An icon that predates the Klingon Empire, an icon mor”
- A task that a player may complete in order to gain a reward or advance the story.
“At the same time, players are not forced to complete quests in a certain order; they're allowed enough free will within the game to determine their goals and needs.”
- The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
“to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc.”
- obsoleteA request; a desire; a solicitation.
“Gad not abroad at every quest and call / Of an untrained hope or passion.”
- obsoleteA group of people conducting a search or inquiry.
“The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out.”
- obsoleteAn inquest; a jury of inquest.
“To 'cide this title is impanneled
A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart,
And by their verdict is determined
The clear eye's moiety and the dear heart's part […]”
- A short test.
“I had a calculus quest (not a quiz or a test, but somewhere in between...) it was on limits, and l'hopital's rule...”
“However took a quest, quiz/test combination that this math progrm^([sic]) uses, and got ten out of ten on it!”
“Quests, bigger than quizzes and smaller than tests, consist of around 10 questions worth 2 points each, designed to take about 30–40 minutes.”
- abbreviation, acronym, alt-ofAcronym of quantized electronic structure.
- intransitiveTo seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
- transitiveTo search for something; to seek.
“Next day we quested in search of our caravan, and after some pains recovered it.”
- To locate and attach to a host animal.
Formsquests(plural) · quests(present, singular, third-person) · questing(participle, present) · quested(participle, past) · quested(past) · QUESTs(plural) · Quests(plural)