Definitions for quests

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quests quest

Spelling: [kwest]

IPA: /kwɛst/

Quests is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in quests (eqsstu).

Definitions for quests

noun

1. a search or pursuit made in order to find or obtain something:
2. Medieval Romance. an adventurous expedition undertaken by a knight or knights to secure or achieve something:
3. those engaged in such an expedition.
4. British Dialect. inquest.
5. Obsolete. a jury of inquest.
6. a search or pursuit made in order to find or obtain something:
7. Medieval Romance. an adventurous expedition undertaken by a knight or knights to secure or achieve something:
8. those engaged in such an expedition.
9. British Dialect. inquest.
10. Obsolete. a jury of inquest.

verb (used with object)

1. to search or seek for; pursue.
2. to search or seek for; pursue.

verb (used without object)

1. to search; seek (often followed by for or after):
2. to go on a quest.
3. Hunting. to search for game. to bay or give tongue in pursuit of game.
4. to search; seek (often followed by for or after):
5. to go on a quest.
6. Hunting. to search for game. to bay or give tongue in pursuit of game.

Origin of quests

1275-1325; (noun) Middle English queste Old French Latin quaesīta, feminine past participle of quaerere to seek; (v.) Middle English questen Old French quester, derivative of the noun

Examples for quests

Evidence of the interest of this respected figure propelled Vieira on his quest.

Where does the quest for beauty and hedonistic impulses begin and end?

His quest is our quest: the ceaseless striving to live out our true creed.

They found it surging and tossing, in quest of Defarge himself.

Our quest for better leaders—“Change we can believe in”— is wishful thinking.

She was confessedly in league with a gang of adventurers upon a quest for treasure.

But sometimes, the quest for facts lets us down, or leads us astray, and leaves us worse off than before, not better.

But not for that did aunt Ann relinquish her quest for the betterment of the domestic world.

She began her quest for equal rights shortly after her three-month sentence.

Bewulf sets out in quest of its hiding-place, with twelve men.

But sometimes, the quest for facts lets us down, or leads us astray, and leaves us worse off than before, not better.

Where does the quest for beauty and hedonistic impulses begin and end?

Bewulf sets out in quest of its hiding-place, with twelve men.

She was confessedly in league with a gang of adventurers upon a quest for treasure.

His quest is our quest: the ceaseless striving to live out our true creed.

Our quest for better leaders—“Change we can believe in”— is wishful thinking.

But not for that did aunt Ann relinquish her quest for the betterment of the domestic world.

Evidence of the interest of this respected figure propelled Vieira on his quest.

They found it surging and tossing, in quest of Defarge himself.

She began her quest for equal rights shortly after her three-month sentence.