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- Dictionaryvo·ca·tion/vōˈkāSH(ə)n/
noun
- 1. a strong feeling of suitability for a particular career or occupation: "not all of us have a vocation to be nurses or doctors"
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The meaning of VOCATION is a summons or strong inclination to a particular state or course of action; especially : a divine call to the religious life. How to use vocation in a sentence. Did you know?
VOCATION definition: 1. a type of work that you feel you are suited to doing and to which you should give all your time…. Learn more.
a strong impulse or inclination to follow a particular activity or career. a divine call to God's service or to the Christian life. a function or station in life to which one is called by God: the religious vocation; the vocation of marriage. Discover More.
A call, summons, or impulsion to perform a certain function or enter a certain career, esp. a religious one. A regular occupation, especially one for which a person is particularly suited or qualified. An inclination or aptness for a certain kind of work. A vocation for medicine.
Unless you can find someone to pay you to sip fancy tropical drinks on the beach, your vocation is not likely to be a vacation. Rather, the word means something you know how to do––or what you do for a living.
noun. /vəʊˈkeɪʃn/ [countable]a type of work or way of life that you believe is especially suitable for yousynonymcalling. Nursing is not just a job—it's a vocation. She believes that she has found her true vocation in life. You missed your vocation—you should have been an actor. Collocations JobsJobsGetting a job. look for work.
1. a feeling of having been called (by God), or born etc, to do a particular type of work. He had a sense of vocation about his work as a doctor. 2. the work done, profession entered etc (as a result of such a feeling). Nursing is her vocation; Many people regard teaching as a vocation.
noun. /voʊˈkeɪʃn/. [countable] a type of work or way of life that you believe is especially suitable for you synonym calling Nursing is not just a job — it's a vocation. She believes that she has found her true vocation in life. You missed your vocation — you should have been an actor. Topic Collocations.
If you have a vocation, you have a strong feeling that you are especially suited to do a particular job or to fulfil a particular role in life, especially one which involves helping other people. It could well be that he has a real vocation.
VOCATION meaning: 1 : a strong desire to spend your life doing a certain kind of work (such as religious work); 2 : the work that a person does or should be doing.
