QUEST
What does "QUEST" mean?
A long, determined search for or pursuit of something difficult to attain.
Meanings
- A long or arduous search for something of value or meaning. His quest for the truth lasted a decade.
- A task or mission undertaken by a character, especially in a game or romance. The knight set out on a quest to recover the stolen relic.
- To search or seek determinedly. Scholars still quest after the meaning of the lost script. formal
Did you know?
- A 'quest' and a 'question' are the same impulse in different clothes: both grow from Latin 'quaerere', to seek - one searches the world for a thing, the other searches a mind for an answer.
Word origin
From Old French 'queste' meaning 'search, hunt', from Latin 'quaesita', past participle of 'quaerere' meaning 'to seek, ask' - the same root as 'question' and 'query'.
Remember it
QUEST = a QUEry put into your feet - a question you go out and walk toward.
A little poem
He packed for the far thing he wanted-
boots, bread, a map half-wrong.
What he found was the road, and that was enough.
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Wordplay
- I went on a quest to find the meaning of 'quest'. Turns out the answer was a question all along.
What it teaches
A quest changes what it sought into who you became while seeking it.
Quick facts
What does QUEST mean?
A long, determined search for or pursuit of something difficult to attain.
Is QUEST a valid word?
Yes — QUEST is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is QUEST?
QUEST has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does QUEST come from?
From Old French 'queste' meaning 'search, hunt', from Latin 'quaesita', past participle of 'quaerere' meaning 'to seek, ask' - the same root as 'question' and 'query'.
What can QUEST teach us?
A quest changes what it sought into who you became while seeking it.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.