Synonyms for career


Grammar : Noun
Spell : kuh-reer
Phonetic Transcription : kəˈrɪər


Définition of career

Origin :
  • 1530s, "a running (usually at full speed), a course" (especially of the sun, etc., across the sky), from Middle French carriere "road, racecourse" (16c.), from Old Provençal or Italian carriera, from Vulgar Latin *(via) cararia "carriage (road), track for wheeled vehicles," from Latin carrus "chariot" (see car). Sense of "course of a working life" first attested 1803.
  • noun course, path
Example sentences :
  • We do not know how or why or when the human race began its career upon this Earth.
  • Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
  • From the beginning to the end of his career he was as much a lyric poet as a dramatist.
  • Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
  • No, so long as my sister has the career fever, I say law, every time.
  • Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
  • I like him; I should like him even if he were not an Earl—and his name a career.
  • Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
  • But there was much in the career of the great Napoleon to inspire enthusiasm.
  • Extract from : « The Boy Life of Napoleon » by Eugenie Foa
  • There were dark sides to his character; there were shadows on his career, there were blots on his name.
  • Extract from : « The Boy Life of Napoleon » by Eugenie Foa
  • First, then, as to the writer's own knowledge of the career of the subject of his present work.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • I allow that he would certainly have made a career, had it not been for the Three Days.
  • Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • Perhaps that sum, trifling as it was, may have smoothed your path and assisted your career.
  • Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • He was engaged by the company, and henceforth his career as an inventor was secure.
  • Extract from : « Heroes of the Telegraph » by J. Munro

Antonyms for career

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