CALLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does calling mean? 

• CALLING (noun)
  The noun CALLING has 1 sense:

1. the particular occupation for which you are trained

  Familiarity information: CALLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The particular occupation for which you are trained

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

calling; career; vocation

Hypernyms ("calling" 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 "calling"):

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)

Derivation:

call (order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role)

 Context examples 

My father's former calling was umble.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There he is, calling to me. So no more just at present from your loving, LUCY.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

LORD JOHN ROXTON: 'Is this fellow calling me a liar?' (Uproar.)

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How did you make the boys stop calling you Dora?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mrs. Bennet's eyes sparkled with pleasure, and she was eagerly calling out, while her daughter read, Well, Jane, who is it from? What is it about? What does he say?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Weedon Scott strode half across the room toward him, at the same time calling him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Not that he was calling upon God; it was a mere expletive, but it came from his soul.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There are now scientists calling for the largest cheetah subspecies to receive "endangered" status on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species.

(Around 7,100 cheetahs remain, say experts, Wikinews)

Researchers say it is important to stay ahead of the resistance to avoid what they are calling a public health catastrophe.

(Malaria-carrying Mosquitoes Becoming Resistant to Bed Nets in Southern Africa, VOA)

Potential risks to the brain can be minimised by using headphones or the loud speaker while calling, in particular when network quality is low and the mobile phone is functioning at maximum power.

(Cell Phone Radiation Harmful for Memory, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)