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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Quest has 2 senses
- quest(n = noun.cognition) pursuance, pursuit - a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria; "the pursuit of love"; "life is more than the pursuance of fame"; "a quest for wealth" has particulars: wild-goose chase
- quest(n = noun.act) seeking - the act of searching for something; "a quest for diamonds" is a kind of hunt, hunting, search
is a kind of search
Derived form verb quest1
Verb Quest has 5 senses
- quest(v = verb.possession) Array - make a search (for); "Things that die with their eyes open and questing"; "The animal came questing through the forest" is one way to seek
- quest(v = verb.motion) Array - search the trail of (game); "The dog went off and quested" is one way to chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track, trail
- quest(v = verb.communication) bay - bark with prolonged noises, of dogs; Array is one way to bark
- quest(v = verb.communication) Array - seek alms, as for religious purposes; Array is one way to beg, solicit, tap
- quest(v = verb.communication) bespeak, call for, request - express the need or desire for; ask for; "She requested an extra bed in her room"; "She called for room service" is one way to communicate, pass, pass along, pass on, put across
Derived forms noun quest2, noun quester1
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Something ----s
Somebody ----s
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Somebody ----s
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Something ----s
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Somebody ----s
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Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
CIDE DICTIONARY
Quest, n. [OF. queste, F. quête, fr. L. quaerere, quaesitum, to seek for, to ask. Cf. Query, Question.].
- The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc. [1913 Webster]"Upon an hard adventure yet in quest." [1913 Webster]"Cease your quest of love." [1913 Webster]"There ended was his quest, there ceased his care." [1913 Webster]
- Request; desire; solicitation. [1913 Webster]"Gad not abroad at every quest and call
Of an untrained hope or passion." [1913 Webster] - Those who make search or inquiry, taken collectively. [1913 Webster]"The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out." [1913 Webster]
- Inquest; jury of inquest. [1913 Webster]"What lawful quest have given their verdict ?" [1913 Webster]
To search for; to examine. Sir T. Herbert. [1913 Webster]
Quest, v. i.
To go on a quest; to make a search; to go in pursuit; to beg. [1913 Webster]
"If his questing had been unsuccessful, he appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
Quest, n. & v.
--n.
1 a search or the act of seeking.
2 the thing sought, esp. the object of a medieval knight's pursuit.
--v.
1 intr. (often foll. by about) a (often foll. by for) go about in search of something. b (of a dog etc.) search about for game.
2 tr. poet. search for, seek out.
--n.
1 a search or the act of seeking.
2 the thing sought, esp. the object of a medieval knight's pursuit.
--v.
1 intr. (often foll. by about) a (often foll. by for) go about in search of something. b (of a dog etc.) search about for game.
2 tr. poet. search for, seek out.
Idiom
in quest of seeking.
Derivative
quester n. questingly adv.
Etymology
ME f. OF queste, quester ult. f. L quaerere quaest- seek
THESAURUS
Quest
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, wailROGET THESAURUS
Quest
Pursuit
N pursuit, pursuing, prosecution, pursuance, enterprise, business, adventure, quest, scramble, hue and cry, game, hobby, still-hunt, chase, hunt, battue, race, steeple chase, hunting, coursing, venation, venery, fox chase, sport, sporting, shooting, angling, fishing, hawking, shikar (Geog loc:India), pursuer, hunter, huntsman, shikari (Geog loc:India), sportsman, Nimrod, hound, pursuing, in quest of, in pursuit, in full cry, in hot pursuit, on the scent, in pursuance of, after, Int, tallyho!, yoicks!, soho!.Inquiry
N inquiry, request, search, research, quest, pursuit, examination, review, scrutiny, investigation, indagation, perquisition, perscrutation, pervestigation, inquest, inquisition, exploration, exploitation, ventilation, sifting, calculation, analysis, dissection, resolution, induction, Baconian method, strict inquiry, close inquiry, searching inquiry, exhaustive inquiry, narrow search, strict search, study, scire facias, ad referendum, trial, questioning, interrogation, interrogatory, interpellation, challenge, examination, cross-examination, catechism, feeler, Socratic method, zetetic philosophy, leading question, discussion, reconnoitering, reconnaissance, prying, espionage, espionnage, domiciliary visit, peep behind the curtain, lantern of Diogenes, question, query, problem, desideratum, point to be solved, porism, subject of inquiry, field of inquiry, subject of controversy, point in dispute, matter in dispute, moot point, issue, question at issue, bone of contention, plain question, fair question, open question, enigma, knotty point, quodlibet, threshold of an inquiry, inquirer, investigator, inquisitor, inspector, querist, examiner, catechist, scrutator scrutineer scrutinizer, analyst, quidnunc, inquiry, inquisitive, requisitive, requisitory, catechetical, inquisitorial, analytic, in search of, in quest of, on the lookout for, interrogative, zetetic, all searching, undetermined, untried, undecided, in question, in dispute, in issue, in course of inquiry, under discussion, under consideration, under investigation, sub judice, moot, proposed, doubtful, quaere?, what?, why?, wherefore?, whence?, whither?, where?, how comes it?, how happens it?, how is it?, what is the reason?, what's the matter?, nicht wahr?, what's in the wind?, what on earth?, when?, who?.
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