Quest vs. Adventure — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Quest and Adventure
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Definitions
Quest➦
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.
Adventure➦
An adventure is an exciting experience that is typically bold, sometimes risky or undertaking. Adventures may be activities with some potential for physical danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting or participating in extreme sports.
Quest➦
The act or an instance of seeking or pursuing something; a search.
Adventure➦
An unusual and exciting or daring experience
Her recent adventures in Italy
Quest➦
An expedition undertaken in medieval romance by a knight in order to perform a prescribed feat
The quest for the Holy Grail.
Adventure➦
Engage in daring or risky activity
They had adventured into the forest
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Quest➦
An inquest.
Adventure➦
An undertaking or enterprise of a hazardous nature.
Quest➦
A jury appointed to take part in an inquest.
Adventure➦
An undertaking of a questionable nature, especially one involving intervention in another state's affairs.
Quest➦
To search for something
Quested for knowledge.
Adventure➦
An unusual or exciting experience
An adventure in dining.
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Quest➦
To go on a quest.
Adventure➦
Participation in hazardous or exciting experiences
The love of adventure.
Quest➦
To search for game or bay when sighting game, as a hound.
Adventure➦
A financial speculation or business venture.
Quest➦
A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
Adventure➦
To venture upon; undertake or try
Adventure a joke.
Quest➦
The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
To rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc.
Adventure➦
To expose to danger or risk
"I had adventured other people's safety in a course of self-indulgence" (Robert Louis Stevenson).
Quest➦
(obsolete) Request; desire; solicitation.
Adventure➦
To proceed despite risks
Adventure into the wilderness.
Quest➦
(obsolete) A group of people making search or inquiry.
Adventure➦
To take a risk; dare
"the first glass of wine I have adventured to drink" (Lawrence Sterne).
Quest➦
(obsolete) Inquest; jury of inquest.
Adventure➦
The encountering of risks; a bold undertaking, in which dangers are likely to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
Quest➦
(education) A short test.
Adventure➦
A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.
A life full of adventures.
Quest➦
(intransitive) To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
Adventure➦
A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
Quest➦
(transitive) To search for something; to seek.
Adventure➦
(uncountable) A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
His sense of adventure
Quest➦
To locate and attach to a host animal.
Adventure➦
(video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.
Quest➦
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.
Upon an hard adventure yet in quest.
Cease your quest of love.
There ended was his quest, there ceased his care.
Adventure➦
(obsolete) That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.
Quest➦
Request; desire; solicitation.
Gad not abroad at every quest and callOf an untrained hope or passion.
Adventure➦
(obsolete) Chance of danger or loss.
Quest➦
Those who make search or inquiry, taken collectively.
The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out.
Adventure➦
(obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.
Quest➦
Inquest; jury of inquest.
What lawful quest have given their verdict ?
Adventure➦
To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
Quest➦
To search for; to examine.
Adventure➦
To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
Quest➦
To go on a quest; to make a search; to go in pursuit; to beg.
If his questing had been unsuccessful, he appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.
Adventure➦
To try the chance; to take the risk.
Quest➦
A search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria;
The pursuit of love
Life is more than the pursuance of fame
A quest for wealth
Adventure➦
That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures, be fastened upon him individually.
Quest➦
The act of searching for something;
A quest for diamonds
Adventure➦
Risk; danger; peril.
He was in great adventure of his life.
Quest➦
Make a search (for);
Things that die with their eyes open and questing
The animal came questing through the forest
Adventure➦
The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
He loved excitement and adventure.
Quest➦
Search the trail of (game);
The dog went off and quested
Adventure➦
A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.
Quest➦
Bark with prolonged noises, of dogs
Adventure➦
A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
Quest➦
Seek alms, as for religious purposes
Adventure➦
To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.
He would not adventure himself into the theater.
Quest➦
Express the need or desire for; ask for;
She requested an extra bed in her room
She called for room service
Adventure➦
To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
Yet they adventured to go back.
Discriminations might be adventured.
Adventure➦
To try the chance; to take the risk.
I would adventure for such merchandise.
Adventure➦
A wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)
Adventure➦
Take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome;
When you buy these stocks you are gambling
Adventure➦
Put at risk;
I will stake my good reputation for this