questnoun [ C ]
uk/kwest/us/kwest/literaryC2 a long search for something that is difficult to find, or an attempt to achieve something difficult:
Nothing will stop them in their quest for truth.
She went to India on a spiritual quest.
[ + to infinitive ] She does aerobics four times a week in her quest to achieve the perfect body.
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- In his quest for physical perfection, he spends hours in the gym.
- The United States is in the van of the quest to establish contact with beings from the beyond.
- New equipment is being developed in a quest to stop drinking and driving.
- Scientists announced another breakthrough in their quest for a cure for prostate cancer.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Searching
- a needle in a haystack idiom
- beachcomber
- bounty hunter
- burrow
- cast around
- dig
- drag
- nose
- once-over
- pick
- pick through sth
- poke
- poke around
- seek
- trail
- turn a place inside out idiom
- turn sth upside down idiom
- wanted
- wild-goose chase
- witch hunt
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