QUEST FOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quest for mean? 

• QUEST FOR (verb)
  The verb QUEST FOR has 1 sense:

1. go in search of or hunt for

  Familiarity information: QUEST FOR used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUEST FOR (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Go in search of or hunt for

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

go after; pursue; quest after; quest for

Context example:

pursue a hobby

Hypernyms (to "quest for" is one way to...):

look for; search; seek (try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

But the thought of the men in the midst of it steadied me, and in my quest for them I forgot myself.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The she-wolf ran herself thin in the quest for meat.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“That pieces of a Norse boat were found so far north hints of the risks these hunters might have ended up taking in their quest for ivory.”

(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)

Your ninth house is essentially an intellectual one, so your quest for higher education falls here, namely when you go to college or graduate school.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

She then yawned again, threw aside her book, and cast her eyes round the room in quest for some amusement; when hearing her brother mentioning a ball to Miss Bennet, she turned suddenly towards him and said: By the bye, Charles, are you really serious in meditating a dance at Netherfield?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

In view of this issue, in recent years a new field of research has evolved, focusing on the quest for strategies that enable pregnant women to better regulate and maintain these mechanisms during pregnancy, thus facilitating pregnancies with fewer complications.

(A new study highlights the importance of undertaking physical activity of moderate–vigorous intensity during the early weeks of pregnancy, University of Granada)

Add to this double apprehension the mystery that still hung over the behaviour of my friends, their unexplained desertion of the stockade, their inexplicable cession of the chart, or harder still to understand, the doctor's last warning to Silver, Look out for squalls when you find it, and you will readily believe how little taste I found in my breakfast and with how uneasy a heart I set forth behind my captors on the quest for treasure.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Keep this list of possibilities I just gave you for the month in mind, because after I discuss Mars’ fabulous help to you in your quest for career this month, I will return to discuss the sweet new moon solar eclipse due on December 25-26.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)