quest

Meaning

Noun

1. A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
2. A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
3. The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
4. (obsolete) A request; a desire; a solicitation.
5. (obsolete) A group of people conducting a search or inquiry.
6. (obsolete) An inquest; a jury of inquest.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
2. (transitive) To search for something; to seek.
3. To locate and attach to a host animal.

Synonyms

search

pursuit

seek

🔍

hunt

seeking

investigation

research

look for

request

call for

bay

pursuance

inquiry

ask

searching

apply

study

query

bespeak

survey

solicit

look

seek out

retrieve

fetch

find

🔍

gather up

get

hoot

howl

inquire

inspection

intention

interrogate

invite

manhunt

offertory

paper

petition

pick up

pray

🛐

probe

project

prospect

prospecting

quest after

quest for

question

❓

quiz

roar

Translations

quête

recherche

ricerca

zoektocht

αναζήτηση

Suche

busca

speurtocht

cerca

speurwerk

búsqueda

έρευνα

αναζητώ

poursuite

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kwɛst/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: quest

In summary

From 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”).