quest

See also QUEST

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

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 quaerere (“to ask, seek”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kwɛst/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɛst

Noun

quest (plural quests)

1. A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
   • 2013 January 1, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 64: 

     In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.

Derived terms

• sidequest

Translations

journey or effort in pursuit of a goal

• Belarusian: пошук (be) (pošuk)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 探索 (cmn) (tànsuǒ), 尋求 (cmn), 寻求 (cmn) (xúnqiú)

• Czech: výprava (cs) f
• Dutch: zoektocht (nl) m, streeftocht (nl) m
• Finnish: etsintä (fi)
• French: quête (fr) f
• German: Suche (de) f, Queste (de) f
• Greek: αναζήτηση (el) (anazítisi) f

• Hindi: फ़िराक़ (hi) (firaaq)
• Japanese: 探索 (ja) (たんさく, tansaku), 探求 (ja) (たんきゅう, tankyū)
• Latin: indagatio (la) f, investigatio (la) f, inquisitio (la) f, scrutatio (la) f, scrutatio (la) f
• Polish: poszukiwanie (pl) n, poszukiwania (pl) pl
• Portuguese: busca (pt) f
• Russian: поиск (ru) (póisk) m, поиски (ru) (póiski) m pl
• Scottish Gaelic: sireadh (gd) m
• Spanish: búsqueda (es) f
• Swedish: resa (sv) c, uppdrag (sv) n, mål (sv) n, strävan (sv) c

Verb

quest (third-person singular simple present quests, present participle questing, simple past and past participle quested)

1. To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.

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Romansch

Etymology

From Latin ecce istum. Compare Italian questo.

Pronoun

quest

1. this