career

career

synonyms, antonyms, definitions, examples & translations of career in English

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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)

  1. One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.
  2. General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it.
  3. (archaic) Speed.
  4. A jouster's path during a joust.
  5. (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
  6. (falconry) The flight of a hawk.
  7. (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)

  1. To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.
    Synonym: careen

Translations

Adjective

career (not comparable)

  1. 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)

  1. career

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