VOCATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The particular occupation for which you are trained

Synonyms:

calling; career; vocation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("vocation" is a kind of...):

business; job; line; line of work; occupation (the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vocation"):

specialisation; specialism; speciality; specialization; specialty (the special line of work you have adopted as your career)

lifework (the principal work of your career)

walk; walk of life (careers in general)

business life; professional life (a career in industrial or commercial or professional activities)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A body of people doing the same kind of work

Synonyms:

occupational group; vocation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("vocation" is a kind of...):

body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vocation"):

profession (the body of people in a learned occupation)

press corps (a group of journalists representing different publications who all cover the same topics)

Credits

Context examples:

If even this stranger had smiled and been good-humoured to me when I addressed him; if he had put off my offer of assistance gaily and with thanks, I should have gone on my way and not felt any vocation to renew inquiries: but the frown, the roughness of the traveller, set me at my ease: I retained my station when he waved to me to go, and announced—I cannot think of leaving you, sir, at so late an hour, in this solitary lane, till I see you are fit to mount your horse.