Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. The act or an instance of seeking or pursuing something; a search.
- n. An expedition undertaken in medieval romance by a knight in order to perform a prescribed feat: the quest for the Holy Grail.
- n. Archaic A jury of inquest.
- intransitive v. To go on a quest.
- intransitive v. To search for game.
- transitive v. To search for; seek.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
- v. To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit
- n. Request; desire; solicitation.
- n. Those who make search or inquiry, taken collectively.
- n. Inquest; jury of inquest.
- transitive v. To search for; to examine.
- intransitive v. To go on a quest; to make a search; to go in pursuit; to beg.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of seeking; search; pursuit; suit.
- n. An act of searching or seeking, as for a particular object: as, the quest of the holy grail.
- n. A body of searchers collectively; a searching party.
- n. Inquiry; examination.
- n. Request; desire; solicitation; prayer; demand.
- n. A jury of inquest; a sworn body of examiners; also, an inquest.
- 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.
- n. Same as queest.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. search the trail of (game)
- n. a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria
- v. seek alms, as for religious purposes
- v. bark with prolonged noises, of dogs
- v. make a search (for)
- n. the act of searching for something
- v. express the need or desire for; ask for
Etymologies
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.
Is That Legal?: A Small Step Closer to Knowing Who Killed Theresa Allore?
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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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