Vocation
[və(ʊ)'keɪʃ(ə)n] or [vo'keʃən]
Definition
(n.) A call; a summons; a citation; especially, a designation or appointment to a particular state, business, or profession.
(n.) Destined or appropriate employment; calling; occupation; trade; business; profession.
(n.) A calling by the will of God.
(n.) The bestowment of God's distinguishing grace upon a person or nation, by which that person or nation is put in the way of salvation; as, the vocation of the Jews under the old dispensation, and of the Gentiles under the gospel.
(n.) A call to special religious work, as to the ministry.
Edited by Ethelred
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Occupation, employment, calling, business, pursuit, profession, trade, AVOCATION.
Typist: Owen
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Profession, office, calling, function, mission, avocation, trade, business,capacity, employment, occupation
ANT:Inconversance, Incapacity, leisure, nonemployment
Checker: Lowell
Definition
n. call or act of calling: calling: occupation.—adj. Vocā′tional.—adv. Vocā′tionally.
Typist: Nathaniel
Examples
- The Meaning of Vocation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- They have not done till this generation; but I feel as if it were my vocation to turn out a new variety of the Yorke species. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The traveller with the cart was a reddleman--a person whose vocation it was to supply farmers with redding for their sheep. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Let other nations be merchants and warriors, while Greece reasserts her ancient vocation of teacher. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He says that he could turn his mind to doing his best in that vocation, on one condition. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The colleges submit to it whenever they concentrate their attention on the details of the student's vocation before they have built up some cultural background. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I am not fit for it: I have no vocation, I said. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Isn't marriage your vocation? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Père Silas _did_ say that his vocation was almost that of a priest--that his life was considered consecrated. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Having some foundation for believing, by this time, that nature and accident had made me an author, I pursued my vocation with confidence. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She already knew his vocation was that of tuition. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I applied it to him with the deliberate conviction that his vocation in life was the vocation of a spy. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The vocation acts as both magnet to attract and as glue to hold. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The vocation will fit you to a hair, I thought: much good may it do you! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It is a physiognomy seen in all vocations, but perhaps it has never been more powerful over the youth of England than in a judge of horses. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- As already implied, the Royal Society was not ex clusive in its attitude toward the different vocations. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Typed by Abe