career

Meanings

Noun

• One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.
• General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it.
• Speed.
• A jouster's path during a joust.
• A short gallop of a horse.
• The flight of a hawk.
• A racecourse; the ground run over.

Verb

• To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.

Adjective

• Synonym of serial

Origin

• 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-; alternatively, from Middle French carriere, from Old Occitan.