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quest

Pronunciation: /kwɛst/

The English word “quest” has 10 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
  2. A task that a player may complete in order to gain a reward or advance the story.
  3. The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
  4. A request; a desire; a solicitation.
  5. A group of people conducting a search or inquiry.
  6. An inquest; a jury of inquest.
  7. A short test.

verb

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

Etymology

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 quaerō (“to ask, seek”). Doublet of question.

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