1. A search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria
   "a quest for wealth"
   - pursuit, pursuance 
2. The act of searching for something
   "a quest for diamonds"
   - seeking

1. Make a search (for)
   "Things that die with their eyes open and questing"; "The animal came questing through the forest" 
2. Search the trail of (game)
   "The dog went off and quested" 
3. Bark with prolonged noises, of dogs
   - bay 
4. Seek alms, as for religious purposes 
5. Express the need or desire for; ask for
   - request, bespeak, call for

Derived forms: quested, quests, questing

See also: quester

Type of: bark, beg, chase, chase after, communicate, dog, give chase, go after, hunt, hunting, pass, pass along, pass on, put across, search, seek, solicit, tag, tail, tap, track, trail, woof

Encyclopedia: Quest

• single-leaf pine
• single-leaf pinyon
• single-member system
• single-minded
• single-mindedly
• single-mindedness
• single-propeller plane
• single-reed instrument
• single-reed woodwind
• single-rotor helicopter
• single-seeded
• single-sex
• single-shelled
• single-spaced
• single-spacing
• single-stranded
• single-valued function
• singleness
• singles
• singlestick
• singlet
• singletary pea
• singleton
• singletree
• Singlish