Quest
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English
Noun
Quest (plural Quests)Verb
Quest (third-person singular simple present Quests, present participle Questing, simple past and past participle Quested)
- To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
Adjectives for Quest
chivalrous; eternal; unsuccessful; lawful; terrible; hopeless; eager; uncertain; original; evangelical; adventurous; furious; vain; winged; doubtful; childish; selfsame.
Verbs for Quest
abandon—; aim—at; engage in—; follow—; join in—; justify—; tire of—; value—; —allures; —beguiles; —demands; —eludes; —escapes; —evades; —leads; —requires; ——tempts ; —wearies.
Derived terms
Thesaurus
adventure, angle for, ask for, bay, beat about for, cast about, chase, chivy, crusade, delve for, delving, dig for, dog, dogging, domiciliary visit, dragnet, emprise, expedition, exploration, ferret out, fish for, follow, follow up, follow-up, following, forage, frisk, give chase, go after, go gunning for, gun for, hollo after, hound, house-search, hue and cry, hunt, hunt for, hunt up, hunting, inquest, inquiry, inquisition, investigation, look, look for, look up, make after, mission, perquisition, pilgrimage, posse, probe, probing, prosecute, prosecution, prowl after, pursual, pursuance, pursue, pursuing, pursuit, quest after, raise the hunt, ransacking, research, rummage, run after, search, search for, search out, search party, search warrant, search-and-destroy operation, searching, see to, seek, seek for, seek out, seeking, shadowing, stalk, stalking, still hunt, still-hunt, take out after, track down, tracking, tracking down, trailing, try to find, turning over, ululate, wail
Etymology
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 the feminine past participle of quaerere (“to ask, seek”).
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Pronoun
quest
Etymology
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