'Career' definitions:
Definition of 'career'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
The general progression of your working or professional life; "the general had had a distinguished career"; "he had a long career in the law" [syn: career, life history]
verb
Move headlong at high speed; "The cars careered down the road"; "The mob careered through the streets"
Definition of 'Career'
From: GCIDE
- Career \Ca*reer"\, n. [F. carri[`e]re race course, high road, street, fr. L. carrus wagon. See Car.]
- 1. A race course: the ground run over. [1913 Webster]
- To go back again the same career. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A running; full speed; a rapid course. [1913 Webster]
- When a horse is running in his full career. --Wilkins. [1913 Webster]
- 3. General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a public character; as, Washington's career as a soldier. [1913 Webster]
- An impartial view of his whole career. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Falconry) The flight of a hawk. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Career'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'career'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accomplished,
- advance,
- advancement,
- advancing,
- angular motion,
- art,
- ascending,
- ascent,
- at concert pitch,
- axial motion,
- backflowing,
- backing,
- backward motion,
- blunder,
- bolt,
- Brownian movement,
- business,
- calling,
- careen,
- career building,
- careerism,
- chase,
- climbing,
- clip,
- coached,
- conversant,
- course,
- craft,
- current,
- dart,
- dash,
- descending,
- descent,
- downward motion,
- drift,
- driftage,
- ebbing,
- employment,
- falter,
- finished,
- flight,
- fling,
- flounce,
- flounder,
- flow,
- flux,
- fly,
- forward motion,
- forwardal,
- forwarding,
- furtherance,
- furthering,
- gait,
- game,
- go-ahead,
- handicraft,
- haste,
- hasten,
- headway,
- hie,
- hump,
- hump it,
- hurry,
- hurtle,
- initiate,
- initiated,
- job,
- labor,
- lick,
- lifework,
- line,
- line of business,
- line of work,
- livelihood,
- lurch,
- make haste,
- march,
- metier,
- mission,
- mounting,
- mystery,
- number,
- oblique motion,
- occupation,
- ongoing,
- onrush,
- onward course,
- pace,
- passage,
- pitch,
- pitch and plunge,
- plunge,
- plunging,
- post,
- practice,
- practiced,
- prepared,
- primed,
- profession,
- professional,
- progress,
- progression,
- progressiveness,
- promotion,
- pursuit,
- race,
- racket,
- radial motion,
- random motion,
- rate,
- reel,
- reflowing,
- refluence,
- reflux,
- regression,
- retrogression,
- rising,
- rock,
- roll,
- rolling,
- rolling on,
- run,
- rush,
- scamper,
- scoot,
- scour,
- scramble,
- scud,
- scurry,
- scuttle,
- seethe,
- set,
- shoot,
- sideward motion,
- sinking,
- skedaddle,
- skilled,
- soaring,
- specialization,
- specialty,
- speed,
- stagger,
- step,
- step on it,
- sternway,
- stream,
- stride,
- struggle,
- stumble,
- subsiding,
- sway,
- swing,
- tear,
- technical,
- thrash about,
- toss,
- toss and tumble,
- toss and turn,
- totter,
- trade,
- trained,
- traject,
- trajet,
- travel,
- tread,
- trend,
- tumble,
- upward motion,
- vocation,
- walk,
- walk of life,
- wallop,
- wallow,
- way,
- welter,
- work,
- zoom