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What does quest mean?
Definitions in simple English

quest

A quest is a journey to achieve a goal. The boy went on a quest.

quest

If you quest for (or after) something, you pursue it.

quest

(= pursuit, pursuance) a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria the pursuit of love life is more than the pursuance of fame a quest for wealth the act of searching for something a quest for diamonds seek alms, as for religious purposes make a search (for) Things that die with their eyes open and questing The animal came questing through the forest search the trail of (game) The dog went off and quested (= bay) bark with prolonged noises, of dogs (= request, call for) express the need or desire for; ask for She requested an extra bed in her room She called for room service

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Conjugation quest conjugation

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quest · verb

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Simple sentences

Chinese firms have embarked on a quest to conquer the world market.
The boy succeeded in his quest, guided by the spirit of a squirrel.
We hope you will join us in our quest.
It may have been a quixotic quest, but surprisingly enough, it was successful.
He went on a quest to find the point where the sky touches the Earth.
They explored the desert in quest of buried treasure.
Gulliver traveled in quest of adventure.
Would you look at that! After a long and exhausting quest I finally managed to find the mythical Scroll of Swordsmanship.

Movie subtitles

As you know, Inspector Brackenreid has joined Mr. Pendrick in his quest to recover a scientific formulation that could be of great benefit to mankind.
Prepare for the quest to get your bride, King Gunther.
I go with Conrad in quest of my youth.
If we must spend another year on the quest well, sir, it will be an additional expenditure in time of only five and fifteen-seventeenths percent.
But Ivanhoe's faith that his king still lived took him on an endless quest from castle to castle until, at last, he came to Austria.
I am upon a quest, sire.
The King granted me leave to go forth upon my quest. but in his heart it saddened him to see me go.
What I do not know, is why I came to be chosen for the holy quest. instead of the truest knight in Christendom.
Always in a quest for adventure.
How sweet. How nicely it justifies your quest for the great whatsit.
God knoweth that there be some among you sick while others travel through the Earth in quest for the bounties of God.
Lies, too,are part of our quest.
If I help him now in the quest for the fleece I shall be a traitor to my country and to you, Hecate.
I came to ask you to give up your quest and sail away with the Argonauts in peace.
How nicely it justifies your quest for the great whatsit.
Listen, then, to what will be written about you and me iftomorrow at dawn we set out from the village in quest of great deeds and adventures.
Watch quest'anello, Anniabale has sent me.
We showed quest'anello.
The symbol of my quest.
Lies too are part of our quest.
An old man and a hound dog named rip off for an evening's pleasure in quest of raccoon.
If I help him in his quest for the fleece, - - I shall be a traitor to my country and to you, Hecate.
I came to ask you to give up your quest and sail away in peace.
You too are on a quest for peace, my boy.
We're gonna harken to Larkin in our quest for adventure.
And in time, most of his subjects came to mourn him as dead. But Ivanhoe's faith that his king still lived took him on an endless quest from castle to castle until, at last, he came to Austria.
Doesn't matter where. Always in a quest for adventure.
And you Beta, foreigner to Venus, daughter of Ur, planet of shadows, you've been assigned as a companion to Gamma on this heroic quest.
Bold in concept, brilliant in execution this most delicate yet most colossal of instruments makes possible man's thrust into deep space and will soon set out on its quest for a new world.
The quest for power.
Well, a quest of knowledge, dear boy.
A quest for the repentant girls?
He'll send you on a quest, maybe to retrieve the golden fleece.
My quest has shown me the world is bigger than your kingdom.
Stealing my cape is not gonna help him in his quest for understanding.

News and current affairs

They found the arctic ice impenetrable, and soon gave up their quest.
Gradually, however, the quest for it has become a global trend, one that continues to conquer new territories, just as blue jeans once did.
Likewise, Quest University in Canada encourages students to bring both scientific and humanistic knowledge to bear on today's most pressing problems.
That approach needs to be abandoned once and for all, before it does any more damage to China's quest for long-term stability and prosperity.
It is in China's vital national interest to halt North Korea's quest to become another declared nuclear power.
While much of the rest of the developing world, following the Washington Consensus, has been directed at a quixotic quest for higher GDP, China has once again made clear that it seeks sustainable and more equitable increases in real living standards.
Could Hillary Clinton be similarly punished in her quest to be the Democratic Party's nominee in next year's US presidential election?
Achieving this ambitious agenda by 2025 would usher in the last phase in the quest for a nuclear-free world, and requires, first and foremost, political conditions that reliably rule out regional or global wars of aggression.
The conclusion is unavoidable: it is the quest for absolute consensus - unanimity - that is undermining progress on major global concerns.
In a sense, critics of the EU are right: the Union may be on a quest to reshape the world in its image.
For Americans the reserve role of the dollar is a potential threat, while for non-Americans it is yet another instance of an American neo-imperial quest for hegemony.
Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense and former US Ambassador to Indonesia, said that the US must bring new seriousness to helping Indonesia in its quest to secure a stable democracy and prosperous economy.
It does not enjoy the massive backing of its society, except when it comes to national pride and the quest for nuclear status.
In its quest to rebuild Russia's geopolitical power and influence, Presdient Vladimir Putin has the support of the immense majority of the population.
The centrality of hereditary succession in the quest for peace and stability was shown by Hafez al-Assad when he agreed to unprecedented good will gestures aimed at drawing Ehud Barak's Israeli government into a peace deal.
Initially she follows in her older sister's footsteps in quest of their common dream, to attend one of China's top universities.
Until then, China's quest for international respect is set to remain elusive and Tibet is likely to stay on the world's agenda.
The quest for synergies and efficiency that is implied by the agreement could well become a driving force for the European Defense Agency.
As a result, Nasser increasingly aligned Egypt with the Soviet Union, and ultimately failed in the quest to unite Arab interests.
An alternative scenario relies on the powerful unifying impact of human capital, the defining factor in the quest for global influence.
When Borlaug received news of the award, at four in the morning, he was already toiling in the Mexican fields, in his never-ending quest to improve agricultural productivity.
People working within science and people working with science - ordinary citizens - will assure that the unending quest for human betterment continues to be an important part of European identity.
Among non-democracies, China had the Bo Xilai scandal, which was worthy of a spy novel, with illicit affairs, rampant corruption, murder, and a senior police official's dramatic quest for asylum in a US consulate.
Indeed, China's pandering to dictators in its quest for resources contradicts its long-term interest in being acknowledged as a benign and legitimate power and commanding the international respect that it craves.
Much of the history of the two centuries since Beethoven composed his opera has centered on that quest for freedom: the fight against colonial powers, the campaigns for basic human rights, the resistance to modern totalitarian and authoritarian regimes.
Indeed, all Yemenis - Houthis, Harak, and even al-Hashids - appear united in their opposition to Saleh's ailing regime and in their quest for civil and human rights.
That quest has blossomed into astonishingly fruitful research areas like cosmology, numerical general relativity, and quantum gravity.

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