What's the difference between odyssey and quest?

Odyssey


Definition:

  • (n.) An epic poem attributed to Homer, which describes the return of Ulysses to Ithaca after the siege of Troy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Odyssey House has conducted an annual marathon therapy group for women who are rape survivors.
  • (2) "We went through our own little odyssey off-screen as well."
  • (3) In the mid-70s these other clubs started rising – Studio 54, which was the glitzy manhattan club, where Andy Warhol, Grace Jones and Liza Minelli hung out, and places like 2001 Odyssey, which were for the working-class Brooklynites.” But in the end it was Cohn’s article and Saturday Night Fever that gave the decade its cultural identity.
  • (4) She is Odysseus's protector in the Odyssey, on hand to provide magical disguises or pep-talks.
  • (5) This is not Das Kapital or the Constitution of Liberty it's more an odyssey by Candide.
  • (6) Off the south-west coast of Ibiza stands Es Vedrà, a 400m-high limestone rock which legend suggests was the island of the Sirens who lured sailors to their deaths in Homer's Odyssey.
  • (7) He wrote in his last book, The Unfinished Life: An Odyssey of Love and Cancer , of deliberately trying to compress what should have been long leisurely years of fatherhood into a few months: one daughter needing to understand where he got his beliefs and ideas, while the other "asked me to write down every likely eventuality that might befall her, and supply a satisfactory answer", as if to keep him always by her side.
  • (8) In the queue for ferry tickets, stories were exchanged of personal odysseys.
  • (9) MH What the Grown-ups Were Doing: An Odyssey Through 1950s Suburbia by Michele Hanson is published by Simon & Schuster.
  • (10) England’s World Cup odyssey will continue with a trip to Ottawa where Norway await them in the round of 16 on Monday evening.
  • (11) • +30 26740 33565 Don't miss: Homer sights Ithaka makes much of its connection with Homer and there are various sites around the island that are speculatively connected to locations in the Odyssey.
  • (12) Onset of sufficient treatment was preceded by a diagnostic Odyssey, lasting up to 9 years.
  • (13) This week, I’m at the SXSW festival for the world premiere of my new film, Beyond Clueless: a feature-length odyssey through the teen genre.
  • (14) Thus the 'helpless expert' can turn helper, a true therapist (Greek: therapon = servant) and spare the patient a long and futile Odyssey from doctor to doctor.
  • (15) This distinctive subgenre encompasses the operatic red-earth journey of Priscilla, the heart-wrenching campfire odyssey of My Own Private Idaho , the incandescent howl of The Living End , the wide, open skies of Transamerica and the west-coast desert escapades of this year's Bruno & Earlene Go to Vegas .
  • (16) By the time it was opened in 1958, Johnson was growing bored with modernist orthodoxies and had embarked on his long, unpredictable stylistic odyssey.
  • (17) But for the most part the past six years have been an odyssey of self-discipline, of learning to bite his tongue and stick either to his communications portfolio or the Coalition script, whatever he thought of its contents.
  • (18) Alia Bhatt #VogueEmpower The Ohio State Marching Band Oct. 18 halftime show Pulling shapes “Breakdance Conversation” with Jimmy Fallon & Brad Pitt Body language Ultimate Backflop - The Slow Mo Guys Hitting the water Racial Profiling Experiment Race row Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey Trailer Out of this world Source: Viral Video Chart .
  • (19) According to many sources, the title of his seventh novel derives from Book Eleven of The Odyssey , a passage where, with “As I lay dying…”, Agamemnon tells Odysseus about his murder.
  • (20) Farage is easily most animated when discussing his Common Sense Tour of last year, an auto-parodic-sounding meet-and-greet odyssey around the country, but one of which he speaks so fondly that you can't begrudge him it.

Quest


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Request; desire; solicitation.
  • (n.) Those who make search or inquiry, taken collectively.
  • (n.) Inquest; jury of inquest.
  • (n.) To search for; to examine.
  • (v. i.) To go on a quest; to make a search; to go in pursuit; to beg.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.
  • (2) Alternative interpretations of these investigations, however, suggest important hypotheses for further research in our quest to understand information-processing deficits associated with schizophrenia.
  • (3) At the time, he described his scientific quest by gesturing to the ocean: "We're just trying to figure out who fucking lives out there."
  • (4) Lula responded by insisting that his government would not stray from its quest to protect the Amazon and appointed another high-profile environmentalist, Green party founder Carlos Minc, as his new minister.
  • (5) The American president at the time, George HW Bush, captured the mood well in his September 1990 address to Congress when he articulated his vision of a “new world order … freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peace”.
  • (6) While it is not directly related to the name issue, the plaintiffs were hoping that Abe’s quest to raise the profile of women in the workplace would help their cause.
  • (7) I can’t see they’d be able to ameliorate this.” Malcolm Turnbull’s quest for power leaves him at odds with the electorate | Peter Lewis Read more Xenophon said the aspects of the plebiscite that troubled him were the cost, the amount of “national oxygen” spent on the issue and its non-binding nature.
  • (8) There’s a lot to break down with the NCAA Tournament, what with 68 teams playing a tournament that lasts several weeks, but this FAQ should at least clear a few things up about college basketball’s month-long quest to crown a champion.
  • (9) The country’s post-Soviet history has been defined by two diplomatic disputes with its neighbours: a quest to get Turkey to agree that the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Armenians during the late Ottoman era constituted genocide; and the search for a political settlement to a conflict with Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh territory .
  • (10) A suppression of questing activity with increased ambient temperature was evident at the highest observed temperatures, implying an upper temperature limit for this activity.
  • (11) Evidently fuelled by the agony of losing a series twelve months ago when the trophy was almost within their grasp, they also had the teamwork, technique and experience to turn their quest for revenge into a reality.
  • (12) With Ukip's clear "in-out" referendum pledge snapping at his heels and devastation beckoning at this year's European elections, Cameron needs a form of words that honours his quest for European reform while calming his party.
  • (13) Most ticks (99%) used grass as questing sites at a height of approximately 45 cm (range 10-97 cm), which correlates with the size of host animals.
  • (14) The quest for a deal in Paris is intensifying, according to Laurence Tubiana, the French ambassador for climate change, speaking during a Google hangout on Friday .
  • (15) In view of the results of CAST, researchers working in the field of experimental arrhythmia have been increasingly focusing on the quest for new anti-arrhythmic modes of action and ways of detecting pro-arrhythmic properties of antiarrhythmic drugs at an early stage.
  • (16) Here's what happened the last time these two sides played here in mid-October: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 3.27am GMT Preamble Hello, and welcome to the Western Conference semi-final second leg between Portland Timbers and Seattle Sounders , in which Portland try to defend a slim lead and Seattle continue their annual quest to make a second leg playoff comeback actually count.
  • (17) She put herself above everyone else.” Ultimately, Mayer failed in her impossible quest.
  • (18) Not because of a statistical quest to have every school an academy, but because the academy in which you work will be part of a wider family and the independence this brings creates opportunity for innovation and choice.” The Department for Education defended the changes facing primary schools.
  • (19) "Saturday nights are the World Cup finals for people who create TV formats – it's still the most exciting quest there is – and the premium on new ideas and the next big thing is even higher.
  • (20) In their quest to avoid relegation from the Premier League, Sunderland Association Football Club have appointed a self-declared fascist as manager .