quest

Meanings

Noun

• A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
• The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
• Request; desire; solicitation.
• A group of people making search or inquiry.
• Inquest; jury of inquest.

Verb

• To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
• To search for; to examine.
• To locate and attach to a host animal.

Origin

• 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 quaerere.