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noun/kwɛst/
  1. 1

    A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.

    • the hero's quest
  2. 2

    A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.; A task that a player may complete in order to gain a reward or advance the story.

    • 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.
  3. 3

    The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.

    • to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc.
  4. 4

    A request; a desire; a solicitation.obsolete

    • Gad not abroad at every quest and call Of an untrained hope or passion.
  5. 5

    A group of people conducting a search or inquiry.obsolete

    • The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out.
  6. 6

    An inquest; a jury of inquest.obsolete

    • To 'cide this title is impanneled A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart, And by their verdict is determined The clear eye's moiety and the dear heart's part […]
verb/kwɛst/
  1. 1

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

  2. 2

    To search for something; to seek.transitive

    • Next day we quested in search of our caravan, and after some pains recovered it.
  3. 3

    To locate and attach to a host animal.

noun
  1. 1

    A short test.

    • I had a calculus quest (not a quiz or a test, but somewhere in between...) it was on limits, and l'hopital's rule...
    • However took a quest, quiz/test combination that this math progrm^([sic]) uses, and got ten out of ten on it!

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