quest
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noun
1.
a search or pursuit made in order to find or obtain something: a quest for uranium mines; a quest for knowledge.
2.
Medieval Romance. an adventurous expedition undertaken by a knight or knights to secure or achieve something: the quest of the Holy Grail.
3.
those engaged in such an expedition.
4.
British Dialect, inquest.
5.
Obsolete. a jury of inquest.
verb (used without object)
6.
to search; seek (often followed by for or after ): to quest after hidden treasure.
7.
to go on a quest.
8.
Hunting.
a.
to search for game.
b.
to bay or give tongue in pursuit of game.
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verb (used with object)
9.
to search or seek for; pursue.
Origin:
1275–1325; (noun) Middle English queste < Old French < Latin quaesīta, feminine past participle of quaerere to seek; (v.) Middle English questen < Old French quester, derivative of the noun
1275–1325; (noun) Middle English queste < Old French < Latin quaesīta, feminine past participle of quaerere to seek; (v.) Middle English questen < Old French quester, derivative of the noun
Related forms
quest·er, noun
quest·ing·ly, adverb
un·quest·ed, adjective
Synonyms
1. hunt, seeking, journey, mission, enterprise.
1. hunt, seeking, journey, mission, enterprise.
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World English Dictionary
quest (kwɛst) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the act or an instance of looking for or seeking; search: a quest for diamonds |
| 2. | (in medieval romance) an expedition by a knight or company of knights to accomplish some prescribed task, such as finding the Holy Grail |
| 3. | the object of a search; goal or target: my quest is the treasure of the king |
| 4. | rare a collection of alms |
| —vb (foll by for | |
| 5. | to go in search (of) |
| 6. | to go on a quest |
| 7. | of gun dogs or hounds |
| a. to search for game | |
| b. to bay when in pursuit of game | |
| 8. | rare to collect alms |
| 9. | archaic (also tr) to go in search of (a thing); seek or pursue |
| [C14: from Old French queste, from Latin quaesita sought, from quaerere to seek] | |
| 'quester | |
| —n | |
| 'questing | |
| —adj | |
| 'questingly | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
quest
c.1300, "a search for something" (esp. of judicial inquiries or hounds seeking game), from O.Fr. queste (Fr. quête), prop. "the act of seeking," from M.L. questa "search, inquiry," alteration of L. quæsitus, pp. of quærere "seek, gain, ask" (see query). Romance
sense of "adventure undertaken by a knight" is attested from late 14c. The verb is first recorded mid-14c.
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FOLDOC
Computing Dictionary
Quest definition
1. A language designed for its simple denotational semantics. "The Denotational Semantics of Programming Languages", R. Tennent, CACM 19(8):437-453 (Aug 1976).
2. QUantifiers and SubTypes. Language with a sophisticated type system. Just as types classify values, "kinds" classify types and type operators. Explicit universal and existential quantification over types, type operators, and subtypes. Subtyping is defined inductively on all type constructions, including higher-order functions and abstract types. User-definable higher-order type operators.
"Typeful Programming", Luca Cardelli
Implemented in Modula-3.
(ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/Quest/quest12A.tar.Z).
3.
(1995-04-02)
American Heritage
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Example sentences
The quest to find the missing universe is one of the key efforts that has brought cosmologists and particle physicists together.
In their quest for mates, some guppy males are show-offs.
His global experiences inform his urgent quest to stop climate change and conserve global water resources.
Demanding and manipulating will not aid your quest for knowledge.
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