Quest

See also: quest, QUEST, and quest'

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Quest.

Proper noun

Quest (plural Quests)

1. A surname from German.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Quest is the 35582^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 632 individuals. Quest is most common among White (78.8%) and Black/African American (14.4%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Quest”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• usteq

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kvɛst/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Etymology 1

From Old French queste, from Latin quaesīta.

Noun

Quest f (genitive Quest, plural Questen)

1. (literature) (hero) quest

   Alternative form: Queste

   Synonyms: Heldenreise, Heldenfahrt

Declension

Declension of Quest [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Quest	die	Questen
genitive	einer	der	Quest	der	Questen
dative	einer	der	Quest	den	Questen
accusative	eine	die	Quest	die	Questen

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English quest.

Noun

Quest f (genitive Quest, plural Quests or (uncommon) Questen)
Quest (uncommon) n or (uncommon) m (strong, genitive Quest, plural Quests)

1. (video games) quest (task that a player may complete in order to gain a reward)
   • 2016, Martina Gaspar, Christiane Sipeer, transl., Gamify your Life […] , Herder, translation of original by Jane McGonigal, →ISBN, pages 28–29:

     Keine Sorge, das klingt schwerer, als es tatsächlich ist. Ich habe schon so einige faszinierende Persönlichkeiten dieselben vier Quests meistern sehen—unter anderem Oprah Winfrey, Skateboard-Legende und Unternehmer Tony Hawk und Colonel Bat Masterson, Generalarzt der Streitkräfte. […] Hier kommt Ihre erste lebensverändernde Quest.

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Declension

Declension of Quest [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Quest	die	Quests, Questen
genitive	einer	der	Quest	der	Quests, Questen
dative	einer	der	Quest	den	Quests, Questen
accusative	eine	die	Quest	die	Quests, Questen

Declension of Quest [neuter (uncommon) // masculine (uncommon), strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das, der	Quest	die	Quests
genitive	eines	des	Quest	der	Quests
dative	einem	dem	Quest	den	Quests
accusative	ein, einen	das, den	Quest	die	Quests

Derived terms

• Seitenquest

Etymology 3

Noun

Quest m (strong, genitive Questes or Quests, plural Queste)

1. obsolete form of Quast

Proper noun

Quest m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Quests or (with an article) Quest, feminine genitive Quest, plural Quests)

1. a surname

Further reading

• “Quest” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Quest” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• Quest on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de