English Online Dictionary. What means career? What does career mean?
English
Etymology
Mid 16th century, from French carrière (“road; racecourse”), from Italian carriera, from Old Occitan carreira, from Late Latin carrāria based on Latin carrus (“wheeled vehicle”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- (“to run”); alternatively, from Middle French carriere, from Old Occitan.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /kəˈɹɪɹ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kəˈɹɪə/
- Homophone (non-rhotic accents only): Korea
- Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Noun
career (plural careers)
- One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.
- General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it.
- (archaic) Speed.
- A jouster's path during a joust.
- (obsolete) A short gallop of a horse. [16th–18th c.]
- 1756, William Guthrie (translator), Of Eloquence (originally by Quintillian)
- Such littleness damps the heat, and weakens the force of genius; as we check a horse in his career, and rein him in when we want him to amble
- (falconry) The flight of a hawk.
- (obsolete) A racecourse; the ground run over.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
career (third-person singular simple present careers, present participle careering, simple past and past participle careered)
- To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.
- Synonym: careen
Translations
Adjective
career (not comparable)
- Synonym of serial (“doing something repeatedly or regularly as part of one's lifestyle or career”)
- a career criminal
Further reading
- "career" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 52.
Scots
Etymology
From English career.
Noun
career (plural careers)
- career