quest
//kwɛst//
Forms
- Plural
- quests
- present (v1)
- quest
- past (v2)
- quested
- past participle (v3)
- quested
- present participle
- questing
- 3rd person singular
- quests
Definitions
1.A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
- Cease your quest of love.
- At the same time, players are not forced to complete quests in a certain order; they're allowed enough free will within the game to determine their goals and needs.
2.The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
3.A short test.
- However took a quest, quiz/test combination that this math progrm^([sic]) uses, and got ten out of ten on it!
- I had a calculus quest (not a quiz or a test, but somewhere in between..) it was on limits, and l'hopital's rule..
- Quests, bigger than quizzes and smaller than tests, consist of around 10 questions worth 2 points each, designed to take about 30–40 minutes.
1.To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
2.To search for something; to seek.
- Next day we quested in search of our caravan, and after some pains recovered it.
3.To locate and attach to a host animal.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4232
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
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”).