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quested

quested is the simple past and past participle of quest.

Meaning of quest

Verb

quest (third-person singular simple present quests, present participle questing, simple past and past participle quested)

  1. (intransitive) To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
  2. (transitive) To search for something; to seek.
    • Next day we quested in search of our caravan, and after some pains recovered it.1634, Thomas Herbert, Description of the Persian Monarchy now beinge the Orientall Indyes, Iles and other ports of the Greater Asia and Africk
  3. To locate and attach to a host animal.

See all 11 meanings of quest

Proper noun capitalized: Quested

Quested

  1. A surname.

Questions about quested

What does quested mean?
Quested means a surname.
What is quested the simple past and past participle of?
Quested is the simple past and past participle of quest.
What part of speech is quested?
Quested is a proper noun.

Words near quested in the dictionary

  1. quest
  2. quest.
  3. Questa
  4. questant
  5. questants
  6. quested
  7. quester
  8. questers
  9. questful
  10. questhouse
  11. questhouses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quested (page history and authors); Quested (page history and authors); quest (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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