career

Meaning

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. Speed.
4. A jouster's path during a joust.
5. (obsolete) A short gallop of a horse.
6. The flight of a hawk.
7. (obsolete) A racecourse; the ground run over.

profession

occupation

personal history

zoom along

line of work

racing course

skim over

rush along

travel rapidly

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kəˈɹɪɹ/

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.

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