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Voyage vs Quest - What's the difference?

voyage | quest |

In obsolete terms the difference between voyage and quest

is that voyage is the act or practice of travelling while quest is inquest; jury of inquest.

As nouns the difference between voyage and quest

is that voyage is a long journey, especially by ship while quest is a journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.

As verbs the difference between voyage and quest

is that voyage is to go on a long journey while quest is to seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.

As an abbreviation QUEST is

quantized electronic structure.

voyage

English

(wikipedia voyage)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A long journey, especially by ship.
  • * J. Fletcher
    • I love a sea voyage and a blustering tempest.
  • * Shakespeare
    • All the voyage of their life / Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
  • (obsolete) The act or practice of travelling.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Nations have interknowledge of one another by voyage into foreign parts, or strangers that come to them.

    Synonyms

    * adventure * exploration * expedition * excursion * journey * tour * vacation

    Related terms

    * envoy

    Derived terms

    * maiden voyage

    Verb

    (voyag)
  • To go on a long journey.
  • * Wordsworth
    • A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.
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    quest

    English

    (wikipedia quest)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • Cease your quest of love.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01
    • , author=Katie L. Burke , title=Ecological Dependency , volume=101, issue=1, page=64 , magazine= citation , passage=In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature , David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.}}
  • The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
  • (obsolete) Request; desire; solicitation.
  • * Herbert
    • Gad not abroad at every quest and call / Of an untrained hope or passion.
  • (obsolete) A group of people making search or inquiry.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out.
  • (obsolete) Inquest; jury of inquest.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • What lawful quest have given their verdict?

    Derived terms

    * sidequest

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
  • To search for; to examine.
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