- quest⇄noun 1. a search or hunt.
Ex. She went to the library in quest of something to read.
(SYN) pursuit.
2a. an expedition of knights.
Ex. There sat Arthur on the dais-throne. And those that had gone out upon the quest, Wasted and wo - quest⇄quest, noun, verb.
- quest⇄v.i. 1. to go about in search of something; search or seek.
Ex. This sense of man's balanced greatness and fallibility in the search for truth has made ours a profoundly questing civilization (Adlai Stevenson).
2. of hunting dogs:
a. - quest⇄v.t. to search or seek for; hunt.