Quest vs. Journey

A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.

The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.

Example: ‘to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc.’;

(obsolete) Request; desire; solicitation.

(obsolete) A group of people making search or inquiry.

(obsolete) Inquest; jury of inquest.

To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.

To search for; to examine.

To locate and attach to a host animal.

The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc.

Example: ‘Upon an hard adventure yet in quest.’; ‘Cease your quest of love.’; ‘There ended was his quest, there ceased his care.’;

Request; desire; solicitation.

Example: ‘Gad not abroad at every quest and callOf an untrained hope or passion.’;

Those who make search or inquiry, taken collectively.

Example: ‘The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out.’;

Inquest; jury of inquest.

Example: ‘What lawful quest have given their verdict ?’;

To search for; to examine.

To go on a quest; to make a search; to go in pursuit; to beg.

Example: ‘If his questing had been unsuccessful, he appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.’;

a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria;

Example: ‘the pursuit of love’; ‘life is more than the pursuance of fame’; ‘a quest for wealth’;

the act of searching for something;

Example: ‘a quest for diamonds’;

make a search (for);

Example: ‘Things that die with their eyes open and questing’; ‘The animal came questing through the forest’;

search the trail of (game);

Example: ‘The dog went off and quested’;

bark with prolonged noises, of dogs

seek alms, as for religious purposes

express the need or desire for; ask for;

Example: ‘She requested an extra bed in her room’; ‘She called for room service’;

A quest is a journey toward a specific mission or a goal. The word serves as a plot device in mythology and fiction: a difficult journey towards a goal, often symbolic or allegorical.

A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.

(metaphorical) Any process or progression likened to a journey, especially one that involves difficulties or personal development.

Example: ‘the journey to political freedom’; ‘my journey of dealing with grief’;

(obsolete) A day.

(obsolete) A day's travelling; the distance travelled in a day.

(obsolete) A day's work.

The weight of finished coins delivered at one time to the Master of the Mint.

A group of giraffes.

To travel, to make a trip or voyage.

The travel or work of a day.

Example: ‘We have yet large day, for scarce the sunHath finished half his journey.’;

Travel or passage from one place to another, especially one covering a large distance or taking a long time.

Example: ‘The good man . . . is gone a long journey.’;

A passage through life, or a passage through any significant experience, or from one state to another.

Example: ‘We must all have the same journey's end.’;

The distance that is traveled in a journey{2}, or the time taken to complete a journey{2}; as, it's a two-day journey from the oasis into Cairo by camel; from Mecca to Samarkand is quite a journey.

To travel from place to place; to go from home to a distance.

Example: ‘Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.’;

To traverse; to travel over or through.

the act of traveling from one place to another

undertake a journey or trip

travel upon or across;

Example: ‘travel the oceans’;

an act of travelling from one place to another

Example: ‘an eight-hour train journey’;

a long and often difficult process of personal change and development

Example: ‘her spiritual journey towards Roman Catholicism’; ‘I was excited with my character's journey in the film’;

travel somewhere

Example: ‘they journeyed south’;