Synonyms:
career, calling, vocation
Meaning: the particular occupation for which you are trained
Usage examples
It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation.
It had decided his vocation, fed his ambition, nourished his dreams, desires, hopes.
To meet this necessity Vincent inaugurated a kind of guild for young priests who desire to live worthy of their vocation.
Yet, in spite of all that such a vocation meant of self-renunciation, year after year the Mission Priests increased in number.
They bless God when they hear good news, and grieve at bad news, losses by death, and, above all, scandalous losses of vocation.
I, who preached contentment with a humble lot, and justified the vocation even of hewers of wood and drawers of water in God's service--I, His ordained minister, almost rave in my restlessness.
My longing was beyond the power of opposition; I closed my eyes, stretched out my arms toward the god of my vocation and felt myself drawn with the suddenness of thought through the trackless immensity of space.
Most men have no vocation; and society, in imposing on them some chance language, some chance religion, and some chance career, first plants an ideal in their bosoms and insinuates into them a sort of racial or professional soul.
The curate and the apothecary, with a little man, who made no boast of his vocation, but who, from the flourish and snap of his fingers, I believe to have been the barber, strongly espoused the cause of high church and the Stuart line.
Can there be anything more agreeable to God, more useful to the Church, or more meritorious, than to foster thus amongst the well-beloved children of God peace, joy, love of vocation, together with union amongst themselves and with their superiors?