quest

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A long or determined search or effort to achieve something.

   She devoted her life to the quest for knowledge.

2. 2
   verb

   To search for something with determination.

   For years he quested after the truth about his family.

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 (“to ask, seek”).

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