Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or an instance of seeking or pursuing something; a search.
- noun An expedition undertaken in medieval romance by a knight in order to perform a prescribed feat.
- noun An inquest.
- noun A jury appointed to take part in an inquest.
- intransitive verb To search for something.
- intransitive verb To go on a quest.
- intransitive verb To search for game or bay when sighting game, as a hound.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To go in search; make search or inquiry; pursue.
- To go begging.
- To give tongue, as a dog on the scent of game.
- To search or seek for; inquire into or examine.
- To announce by giving tongue, as a dog.
- noun The act of seeking; search; pursuit; suit.
- noun An act of searching or seeking, as for a particular object: as, the quest of the holy grail.
- noun A body of searchers collectively; a searching party.
- noun Inquiry; examination.
- noun Request; desire; solicitation; prayer; demand.
- noun A jury of inquest; a sworn body of examiners; also, an inquest.
- noun Same as
queest .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To search for; to examine.
- intransitive verb rare To go on a quest; to make a search; to go in pursuit; to beg.
- noun The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit
- noun Request; desire; solicitation.
- noun Those who make search or inquiry, taken collectively.
- noun Inquest; jury of inquest.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
journey or effort inpursuit of agoal (often lengthy,ambitious , orfervent ); amission . - verb To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a
mission or job.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb search the trail of (game)
- noun a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria
- verb seek alms, as for religious purposes
- verb bark with prolonged noises, of dogs
- verb make a search (for)
- noun the act of searching for something
- verb express the need or desire for; ask for
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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The title quest has been driving him, from Pittsburgh to Detroit to Chicago the past few years.
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The title quest has been driving him, all the way from Pittsburgh to Detroit and Chicago the past few years.
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This season, coach Brian Kopetsky is hopeful his squad can continue the title quest on several levels.
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Tony Mowbray is watching his title quest being undermined by negligent defending and if the
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BERLIN - Olympic champion Angelo Taylor lost an appeal Sunday to be reinstated back into the 400-meter hurdles, ending his title quest at the world championships.
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Mr. Velasco studied economics at Columbia University, as part of what he calls a quest "to understand how did this happen [to Chile] and how do we make sure it will not happen again."
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We have seen again and again in modern U.S. politics that to create a compelling narrative of any candidate's major character flaws, his opponents or the media need to find early hints of that flaw, what I call the quest for foreshadowing (see below).
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I found it quite moving, and not only because the guy on a quest is my friend.
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"Part of the allure of this quest is the element of camping,"
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Bible readers, those who search the Bible for themselves, perhaps exemplify the urgency more plainly than readers of Shakespeare, yet the quest is the same.
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