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VOCATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The particular occupation for which you are trained
Synonyms:
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)
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.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
